The writers got gilled here in Hollywood struck for 22 months against the big four agencies. There's always going to be a tension around the relationship between the creator and the distribution. Tom Cruise does a really good job of leveraging his star power against the distribution. Big Tech has always been criticized for getting more than their fair share of the creator of the value the creator creates up.
Biden will get a new Chief of Staff, the U.S. Attorney has questions for Amazon, and Elon takes the stand. Over at Netflix: strong subscriber growth, and Reed Hastings is out as Co-CEO. And of course, more layoffs. Then we’re joined by Friend of Pivot Cory Doctorow on his new book, “Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back.”
Cory is on Twitter at @doctorow and you can find his book here.
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