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Originally Posted by HarryT
If corporations could not hold copyrights, where would be the incentive to make movies? "Blockbuster" movies are so astronomically expensive, costing hundreds of millions of $ to make, that they are really outside the budget of any but the wealthiest of individuals.
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And due to "creative" accounting by the corporations, the artists themselves get very little of that. A lot of that "astronomical expense" is being paid out to shell companies so that at the end of the day they can claim the movie made little to no profit, which is what the artists cut is based off of. Meanwhile, a lot of that expense ends up right back in the corporation's pocket.
I'm not sure Hollywood is really the best example to use.