To conclude, I will catalog some financial regulation options that would help rejuvenate the media sector and end the era of derivative media. It's almost comical how simple some of these changes would be to make from a legislative perspective. Remove a line here, reinstate a rule there. Of course, the difficulty is not the formulation of regulations, but the power struggle over earning the votes to enact that legislation. The ­financial sector employs a veritable army of lawyers and lobbyists.

SEED: The contrast between legislative simplicity and political difficulty suggests an essay angle: enumerating specific financial regulation tweaks that would reshape the media landscape.

Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, loc. 455