The market is changing, young people are into gaming and new media more than they are into movies and TV. Cinema is dead, and "content" on streaming TV will be on a high note for another 10 years, and then it will go downhill as well. The era of passive entertainment is finished. What we're seeing right now is just the tail-end of the market where studios trying to clinch in there with recognizable IP (hence all the reboots/sequels). When the last of us older people go, the young ones won't care. Same for TV stuff. The future of entertainment is gaming-oriented.

In the 80s, there was quite a lot of positive future sci-fi films (ST, Back to the Future etc). These days, absolutely everything is dystopian. I'm a huge fan of scifi, but I really dislike it when everything is so dystopian.

Lots of money went into these films. It is nice to see them, plus some actors who couldn't get directing jobs before in high profile films, now they can try their hand on it. However, my problem with the strategy is that while they mostly showed on the trailer all the action films (about 90% of what was shown was action/thriller), if you actually read that catalog (Variety has a listing of genre for these), only about 20% of the films are action. And only 1 sci-fi. It's like knowing that audiences like action, and the trailer for the films showcase that, but what they actually deliver at the end is mostly dramas and family movies. Just saying.

I thought exactly the same when I was watching their live streaming: not enough truly original content. However, it's possible that they will do more originals as they go along, since they probably want to grab as much subscribers as possible right now, so they're doing that with existing IP. We'll see...

The media had reported early this year that Quibi had a special agreement with the producers of each show that the rights return to them after 7 years. This might be a problem for streamers buying something that won't own forever (unless they pen new agreements).

I would be worried only if that video was used for a narrative film, or a music video, or a documentary of really bad taste (e.g. some crazy conspiracy theory doc). But not for a normal documentary. While technically you are supposed to clear all footage and music for documentaries too, let's not forget that documentaries also fall under the Fair Use as journalistic works. So honestly, if that documentary was providing a service to society, I would be more than happy to let my video be part of it, even without a license.

While the letter of the law protects your side these days, the spirit of the law was originally about providing service to society. So when it comes to footage, there's no better way to do that but with a documentary.