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by avidiax 910 days ago
I think what the industry needs is a fixed royalties regime like recorded music has.

Spotify has the whole catalog, and the rights holders can't stop them. But Spotify does have to pay a certain industry fixed royalty per play.

The trick will be that movies & TV have wildly different production costs and replay value vs. music singles, so the scheme would have to account for this in a way that is fair.