What do you get when you start calling all elements of culture “content?” When entire business plans are based on stealing the work of musicians? When even educated people – professors, say — denigrate the idea of copyright and intellectual property? When you turn Jeff Koons into one of the art world’s biggest stars? When we lay off the librarians who could tell kids that photos, ideas, images, and passages of prose are created by someone and still belong to them until they choose to give them away?
You get a world in which a social media “comedian” like Josh Ostrovsky can become rich.