in reality this isn't the choice; it's typically private enterprise vs. public (government) broadcasters. Even PBS with lots of supporting patrons can't make it without significant government funding.

> in reality this isn't the choice

In the reality with excessive copyright terms, yes.

> Even PBS with lots of supporting patrons can't make it without significant government funding.

Are government grants for the arts a bad thing now?

Does PBS make content people want to watch?

The current state of oss would be a counterpoint to this. That maintainers are often poorly supported implies what I suspect we're all trying not to acknowledge.

I think an interesting counter-counter point is the seeming success of video and board games crowdfunds, where hundreds of thousands of dollars seem to be fairly regularly collected, not that that rivals the scale of movie production.

> The current state of oss would be a counterpoint to this.

The current state of OSS exists in a world with copyright. If you want to extrapolate that to a world without copyright you better have a good argument why the incentives for OSS funding would not change.