If I Were A Republican...

...and I wanted to win the Presidency, I would focus on California.  Absurd?  California lone can flip 55 votes - it would swing an election - and there are plenty of issues to divide Californians.  But the big one for Californians elites:  copyright.

You want to mess with Hollywood, mess with this system and the laws.  You want to pit Hollywood and Silicon Valley against one another?  Copyright and piracy are the issues.  One simple flip in Hollywood could throw the town into chaos:  what if screenwriters had copyright to their work?  Imagine the ramifications to the movie making process and the money.  Screenwriters have never fought for copyright because they always took the money - but it isn't out of the realm of possibilities to imagine a world where studios don't own screenplays, they simply act as publishing houses or theaters with respect to the underlying work.

There would be less money all around - and I'm not sure if I'd personally like the situation - but it would be entertaining to imagine this alternative world.