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posted by chromas on Thursday April 04 2019, @12:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the dinosaurs-stuck-in-the-past dept.

Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix

The Justice Department has warned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that its potential rule changes limiting the eligibility of Netflix and other streaming services for the Oscars could raise antitrust concerns and violate competition law. [...] According to a letter obtained by Variety, the chief of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, Makan Delrahim, wrote to AMPAS CEO Dawn Hudson on March 21 to express concerns that new rules would be written “in a way that tends to suppress competition.” [...]

The letter came in response to reports that Steven Spielberg, an Academy board member, was planning to push for rules changes to Oscars eligibility, restricting movies that debut on Netflix and other streaming services around the same time that they show in theaters. [...]

“if the Academy adopts a new rule to exclude certain types of films, such as films distributed via online streaming services, from eligibility for the Oscars, and that exclusion tends to diminish the excluded films’ sales, that rule could therefore violate Section 1.” [...]

The letter reflects concerns that the Justice Department has been concerned about the ability of traditional media outlets to limit competition from new streaming video entrants, even those that have grown significantly in recent years like Netflix and Amazon Prime. [...]

Now if only Netflix could replicate the true theater experience of cell phones, crying babies and being searched like a criminal.


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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by VLM on Thursday April 04 2019, @02:34PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 04 2019, @02:34PM (#824493)

    exclude certain types of films

    They already exclude anything not ultra far left politically, leading to "get woke go broke", so weird self destructive exclusionary rules are not really anything new to the business.

    The business strategy of narrowcasting into ever weirder tiny subcultures that appeal to ever smaller fringe audiences will eventually wipe Hollywood out.

    They should be strongly encouraged to make themselves less relevant, not discouraged; if they want self-immolation, who are we to oppose their desire for corporate euthanasia?

    In a survival of the fittest scenario, its weird to think of a world maybe a decade from now where the dominant form of video entertainment is Pewdiepie and nobody remembers Hollywood anymore.

    "The racial group who own and control the media" are not amused they own a rapidly depreciating asset, leading to a lot of hand-wringing articles over the last couple decades similar to this.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2019, @04:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2019, @04:19PM (#824565)

    100% certain that the movie "Unplanned", no matter how well done, could never get an award in that political climate.

    Everything about the movie is being suppressed online. Twitter took down their account, then reinstated it with missing followers after the outrage got too big. Lots of people report that they can't follow it for more than a moment. If they follow it, Twitter immediately unfollows it for them. By the time Twitter undoes the suppression and gives a fake apology, the damage will have been done.

    My relatives report that Unplanned is excellent.