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Re:Netflix's New Chapter by majormajor on Monday January 23, 2023 @06:00PM (#34496339)
These deals can be complex. Consider if you were going to make a movie, and were shopping it around to studios.

If Studio A was like "we'll give you a 10% cut of whatever we then license it for for streaming" and Disney was like "we're gonna stream it on our own platform for free, sorry" that's a negotiation problem for Disney. So selling internally at market rate is a good thing for relationships with external creators and partners.

Re:Netflix's New Chapter by rcme on Monday January 23, 2023 @10:49PM (#34498943)
It seems like it’d be infinitely more fair to say “should we stream it in house, here is how royalties will be calculated.”