They make money on ACTA

The five largest media companies make money from protests around ACTA. They are the ones who gain hundreds of billions of dollars annually from trading goods protected by intellectual property rights. They do not want to change the status quo, which is defended by laws such as ACTA. But beware, they also charge a license fee on every Guy Fawkes mask that protesters veil over their faces. According to the calculations of the New York Times, Time Warner has already earned 28 million dollars on it.

And it is possible because the protesters from the Anonymous group cover their faces with a mask with the image of Guy Fawkes, a 2006th-century revolutionist? the same as V wore, the main character of V for Vendetta. The movie was produced in 2007 by Warner Brothers and, it turns out, Warner reserved the rights to its image, which means that a license fee is charged on each mask. The mask has been the best-selling gadget on Amazon since the protests. Media companies have exclusive rights to e.g. Winnie the Pooh, Snow White or Count Dracula. They are the one who has to be paid to record Happy Birthday. They do not want to share music and movies online for free. Why? Walt Disney earned six billion dollars a year from the marketing exploitation of Winnie the Pooh? mainly thanks to the sale of licenses to companies such as Mattel or Kimberly Clark, which produced toys or stationery with the image of a teddy bear. However, this was the case only until 2, because then the company finally lost the court battle for the rights to the character of Winnie the Pooh with the heirs of the company that first bought them from AA Milne, the author of the stories about the bear. Now - as Platine.pl writes - Disney has to give 1,6% annually, because only that much is due to the rightful owners of copyrights. CBS earned about $ 70 billion from licensing the use of the materials last year. He has the rights to the recordings of Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles and Bob Dylan and many other iconic artists of the 80s, 90s and XNUMXs - Aerosmith, David Bowie and Kate Bush, to name a few. Each use of the works of these artists is associated with the need to apply for consent and pay royalties. Source: Platine.pl portal from the Money.pl Group