>>713168289 (OP)Publisher consolidation.
>>713168617Current IP law is basically just a black hole of culture that is optimized for creating long drawn out legal cases where one party attempts to deprive the other party of money.
People are unironically no longer allowed to iterate on the formative culture of their childhood or ideas that interest them, even just getting vaguely close can result in cease and desists that the average person can't afford to contest even if it's clearly nonsense.
Publishers, trusts and other NPEs are then just accretion discs that naturally form around this black hole.