Is Vertical Integration in the Film Industry Legal Again?

Is Vertical Integration in the Film Industry Legal Again? About a year ago a federal judge granted a motion to terminate the movie industry’s previous licensing rules which had been in effect since the 1940s and largely prevented any vertical integration in the film industry from occurring. So does this mean that vertical integration in […]

What is Vertical Integration in Film?

In business, the term vertical integration is frequently used to describe businesses in which two or more stages of production usually operated by separate individually-owned companies are instead owned and operated by the same parent company to provide economies of scale. The term vertical integration represents the combination of two or more individual stages of production. […]