Hollywood Studio Bosses Ask Obama To Help Improve Relationship With Silicon Valley... While Pressing TPP That Will Harm Silicon Valley
from the yeah,-so-that-first-bit... dept
Just before Thanksgiving, it appears that President Obama got to spend some time with the heads of the various major film studios, during which they made two key requests:- Help them improve their relationship with the tech industry.
- Push forward with the various maximalist copyright proposals found in the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) agreement.
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Filed Under: barack obama, copyright, hollywood, silicon valley, tpp
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Screw Hollywood!
I know it won't happen, but it would be awesome if it did.
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Wow, still bitter after all of these years, huh Poindexter? It seems like all of those hours staring through the vents of your gym locker left an indelible impression.
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Well I'm not sure who you're talking about either, since since no part of your reply to me applies either. If you want to make nonsense claims about random people on the webz, expect the same in response.
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I'm still trying to parse him comment. He thinks that people in third world countries deserve it because they're "unemployable in a more competitive economy"? WTF?
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You shouldn't be running down jobs that depend on copyright to exist.
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FTFY (as i read it, that sentence, in its original form littered with 'they', was just bothering me)
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Marching Orders
I guess even the President has to meet with his bosses at least every once in a while.
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Of course they want "better relationships"
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Nothing like a slap in the face
Hey, that guy over there seems to have a problem with our business arrangement. We would like you to talk to him (an artist/tech/low level grunt) and get things worked out.
What's the arrangement?
We slap him in the face and he gives us 3/4 of his net revenue, which we take out of his profits over the rest of his life.
So what's the problem?
He's not happy about being slapped or having to pay us for the privilege of being slapped.
Well perhaps you should change your business model and provide a service that your customers or users want?
SLAP... Bring in the next elected official, this one was defective and seemed to still have some of those pesky "morals" we keep hearing about... I thought we had eradicated that condition in politicians through selective in-breeding years ago, but apparently a few still get through the system without being totally crushed...
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hah like people could do without their tv shows for that long, let alone their interwebs too
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Obama speaks to Hollywood...
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Erm, foreign tax rebates have been a large part of film production for decades. Plus, no matter where the production takes place, "Hollywood" will still get the overall revenue from any production they make. So, I'm not sure what the point is.
Maybe you're thinking of foreign & independent productions, but again "Hollywood" have done a very good job of keeping them out of most cinema distribution and are happily attacking any platform they'd use to get an advantage over "piracy".
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It must have been cramped in that rectum.
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Alright hollywood want a better relation with SV?
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