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I don't think it makes sense to force business plans on companies.
by joaorj 10y ago
I don't think it makes sense to force business plans on companies.
- mynameismonkey 10y agoBBC isn't a company in the traditional sense, it's a public service established by charter. The UK can and does "force" it to do many things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC#Charter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC#Charter
- ubernostrum 10y agoI don't think it makes sense to force business plans on companies. And yet we've done it multiple times in the US. We routinely encounter situations in the media industry where a new medium is hated/feared by the entrenched players who try to use refusal to license content as a way to kill the new medium before it takes off. Up until very recently, the standard solution to this, in order to not have artifically-granted monopolies on content stifle technological innovation, was for Congress to impose mandatory licensing schemes on the copyright holders. That's how cable TV originally got off the ground, for example; over-the-air broadcast networks didn't want to license their content to cable, but Congress imposed mandatory licensing on them. Result: brand-new multi-billion-dollar industry that kept those networks alive a while longer.