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Re North American Box Office Hits Record $11.4 Billion
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 17:52:19 -0500
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From: Richard Bennett <richard () bennett com> Date: January 2, 2017 at 3:56:20 PM EST To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: ip <ip () listbox com> Subject: Re: [IP] North American Box Office Hits Record $11.4 Billion If the defendant in a case of car theft argues “yes, I stole a car but the guy I stole it from has plenty more cars so no big deal”, I don’t think the court is going to be sympathetic. It’s easy to pretend it’s no big deal by cherry-picking data, but I think you’d be hard-pressed to find a large number of musicians willing to assert they’re doing as well as they ever have. The most heavily pirated movies and TV shows have geek appeal, according to some random poster on Reddit: Top ten most pirated TV shows of 2016: • Game of Thrones • The Walking Dead • Westworld • The Flash • Arrow • The Big Bang Theory • Vikings • Lucifer • Suits • The Grand Tour I don’t know which are least-pirated, but my guess would be children’s shows. So piracy makes the kind of shows I like watch less profitable to produce than shows I’m way too old to watch until I get grandchildren. I don’t believe this dynamic is good for the culture as we Americans are much too childish already. Look at the tantrum we threw in November. RBOn Jan 2, 2017, at 6:17 AM, Dave Farber <dave () farber net> wrote: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org> Date: Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 7:43 AM Subject: North American Box Office Hits Record $11.4 Billion To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior () attrition org> Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Journalists, pundits, and politicians should keep this article handy when Hollywood resumes their anti-technology & restrictive IP maximalist actions in 2017 while citing the 'scourge' of 'piracy' being a crippling thing for their bottom lines, thus justifying their requests. -- rick North American Box Office Hits Record $11.4 Billion Brent Lang Senior Film and Media Editor @BrentALang January 1, 2017 | 02:04PM PT http://variety.com/2017/film/news/box-office-record-finding-dory-1201950948/ The North American box office closed out the year with $11.4 billion in ticket sales, ComScore said Sunday. That marks a new record for the industry, bypassing the previous high-water mark of $11.1 billion that was established in 2015. ComScore, a data measurement company, did not calculate admissions, but studio executives and analysts believe that attendance will be essentially flat. Nor does it account for inflation. The record was achieved, in part, thanks to more expensive tickets. Ticket prices hit new highs earlier in 2016, though an average full-year price for tickets have yet to be calculated. Still it was a record that few thought the industry would set. This year was faulted for lacking major franchises such as James Bond and the Fast and the Furious series. It was a particularly strong year for Disney, which controlled more than a quarter of the domestic market share despite releasing fewer films than any of the major studios. It made the most of what it had. Disney launched four of the top five highest-grossing films, including “Finding Dory,” the years top film with $486.3 million. When holdovers are taken into account, Disney had six of the year’s ten highest-grossing releases, a group that includes “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” which debuted in 2015. Other top films include “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” ($408.2 million), “Captain America: Civil War” ($408.1 million),”The Secret Life of Pets” ($368.4 million), and “The Jungle Book” ($364 million). Archives | Modify Your Subscription | Unsubscribe Now— Richard Bennett Founder/Publisher, High Tech Forum IPR Consultant
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