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Content Clashes and the Netflix Effect: Hollywood Lawyers Discuss the Decade Ahead

Several iPhone models ago, video industry giant Blockbuster refused to buy a fledgling DVD-rental-by-mail company for $50 million. A decade later, there's one Blockbuster store left in existence, while that startup is worth about $142 billion. Netflix has rocked Hollywood in ways most insiders couldn't have imagined at the start of the decade, but its […]

January 2, 2020 8:38am

Hollywood Lawyers Discuss Netflix, Content Clashes — Illustration by: Julia Yellow

Several iPhone models ago, video industry giant Blockbuster refused to buy a fledgling DVD-rental-by-mail company for $50 million. A decade later, there's one Blockbuster store left in existence, while that startup is worth about $142 billion. Netflix has rocked Hollywood in ways most insiders couldn't have imagined at the start of the decade, but its meteoric rise is certainly not the only thing to significantly impact the industry in the 2010s.

As the year and decade come to an end, The Hollywood Reporter asked attorneys across various sectors of entertainment to weigh in on the most impactful events of the past decade and make predictions for the industry's next 10 years.