Hollywood

In Kyle’s wiki, Hollywood is the setting for the Intellectual Property / “IP Era” debate. The framing on that page is that the dominant Hollywood business model has shifted from creating something to owning something forever — “It’s not about creating something, it’s about owning something, forever.” Since 2014, every year has been dominated by franchises and sequels, with a counter-history (via the 1930 Tom Sawyer adaptation of Mark Twain) arguing “Hollywood Has Always Banked on I.P.” The pro-IP case holds that “IP isn’t the problem. It’s the solution for Hollywood” because it reliably makes money; the critique links it to Monoculture and the homogenization of cultural output.

Context: Hollywood is the Los Angeles district and global metonym for the American commercial film and television industry — the major studios and the franchise/blockbuster economics that dominate theatrical box office.

Where this appears

• Intellectual Property — Hollywood is the arena for the “IP Era” thesis: franchise/reboot strategy, owning vs. creating properties, and the resulting cultural concentration.