"House of Cards: Will Copyright Issues in Online Distribution Topple Foundations or Revolutionize the Film and Television Industries?" Aldus de titel van het omslagartikel van Landslide door Laura Possessky
"Netflix topped 40 million worldwide subscribers during the third quarter of 2013 and now has more U.S.-based subscribers than HBO.Its original program House of Cards was the first online program to garner an Emmy (three, in fact)—and a remarkable nine Emmy nominations.As Netflix breaks records and achieves landmark firsts, it harbingers the arrival of the “new normal” in media content distribution: the personalized portable online platform.
We are in the midst of an entertainment industry revolution. A convergence of technological, economic, and legal developments has led to the complete transformation of how consumers access and view programming. Consumers have the ability to decide when and where to view content and even whether to interact with it. With established media conglomerates initially resistant to change, new companies and new distribution models have emerged to fill the increasing demand, pushing the entire entertainment industry into a new realm of content-viewing experiences. Equally dramatic technological advances on the content production side of the industry have made it feasible for programming to be developed and delivered more economically. These transformations in the entertainment industry have resulted in major breakthroughs in developments for online distribution and original online programming for consumer digital platforms."
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