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Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by Sander_Marechal on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:01AM (#27290587)
Compulsory licensing would be fantastic. It already exists for e.g. radio
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Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by rhino369 on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @01:23PM (#27293387)
A studio recording is what? 100k investment? A season of TV is at least 10M--and Amazon and Netflix are spending 200M on some.

I think it would be very challenging to set compulsory licensing rates for TV and Movies.

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