Yeah like the copyright lawyers of content owners that got their works trained on?
replyHow many trillions of dollars were those content owners worth?
replyEnough. They just weren’t working in coordination.
replyYou are vastly overestimating the power of publishers. The top book publisher in the US is worth $5 billion. All publishers together are about $50 billion. The New York Times is $11 billion. Fox is about $15-25 billion. Add together every single book publisher, newspaper, magazine, TV/radio, digital publisher and really every print and broadcasting platform in the country and you’d reach about $100-$150 billion. That is roughly 3% of Google.
replyThese companies have a ton of cultural capital, sure, but in American capitalism that means nothing.