Fan-artist solidarity now serves corporate rights-management rivalry

Evidence

This was the state of pop culture in the twenty-first century: artists and fans joining forces united in one corner of a corporate rivalry between multimillionaires, battling over rights management as a means of securing long-term passive income streams. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 543

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences the omnivore-monoculture thesis — the collapse of subcultural authenticity into monetized corporate participation.