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Re:Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies by senko on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:53PM (#33184027)
And books.

I find it amusing that you reduced the works of Greek and Roman philosophers and poets, the entire Renaissance, the whole Library of Alexandria and indeed, the Bible, to "practically nothing."

I fail to see how, say, the Nth installment of Marvel movies is somewhat more worthy than all of that.

Movies which, I might add, are already hugely profitable, even though they're massively pirated.

Re:Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies by badpun on Thursday October 13, 2022 @03:36AM (#33188285)
The OP was talking about "being entertained" - very few of the older works were written to entertain.
Re:Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies by senko on Thursday October 13, 2022 @07:32AM (#33189628)
Apart from being inconsequential (copyright makes no distinction between products for entertainment or otherwise), this is also incorrect.

Here are just a few examples off the top of my head, to whet your appetite:

- The OG superhero story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh

- A fairly popular adventure story you might have heard about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey

- This one even has "comedy" in its name, if you needed convincing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy