The Pros and Cons of Antitrust in the Creative Industry

The WGA's demands seem pretty reasonable and pretty modest compared to the scale of the exact compensation but also at the same time that like reasonability and modesty is a source of concern. These folks are still going to be there in five years and we're doing it again and they're gonna be richer and they're going to be you know more deeply entrenched. The good news about that is that we have had a sea change in the federal government in terms of antitrust enforcement. There's actually a certain amount of bipartisan support as well for antitrust because the sort of populist wave that's that swept through the Republican Party is also not a fan of big business or a fan of Hollywood.