Copyright Facts for the State of California

Jobs
- The motion picture and television industry supported 198,203 direct jobs and 142,454 production-related jobs.
- The software industry supported 494,856 direct jobs and 1,160,457 jobs in total.
- Local television supported 193,260 jobs.
- Local radio supported 114,730 jobs.
- The app economy supported 708,000 jobs in the computing workforce.

Wages
- $21.02 billion in wages generated from the motion picture and television industry.
- $1.47 billion earned by new media and internet creators.
- In the local app economy, the average computing salary is $108,125.

State Economic Impact
- Local software industry contributed $124.688 billion to U.S. GDP.
- Local television contributed $99.17 billion to U.S. GDP.
- Local radio contributed $58.55 billion to U.S. GDP.
- California’s music industry generated $38 billion to U.S. GDP.

Copyright Registrations [2011-2017]
- Total Registrations: 823,102
  - Visual Arts: 210,660
  - Performing Arts: 328,496
  - Sound Recordings: 104,414
  - Literary Works: 179, 532

Creative Community By The Numbers
- 889 video gaming companies
- 95,353 music publishers and 191,917 songwriters
- 671 local commercial radio stations
- 91 local commercial television stations
- 453 newspaper publications
- 60+ book and education publishers
- 30,180 graphic designers
- 5,810 photographers

Creative Spotlight
- Notable creators who hail from the state of California:
  - George Takei, actor
  - Leonardo DiCaprio, actor
  - Tom Hanks, actor
  - Clint Eastwood, actor/director
  - Angelina Jolie, actor
  - Marilyn Monroe, actor
  - Kendrick Lamar, rapper
  - Snoop Dogg, rapper
  - Greta Gerwig, director
  - Kathryn Bigelow, director
  - Justin Lin, director
  - Nora Ephron, journalist, writer, filmmaker
  - Maxine Hong Kingston, author
  - Amy Tan, author
  - Steve Jobs, software developer
  - Ansel Adams, photographer
  - William Hanna, animator/director/cartoon artist
  - Rube Goldberg, cartoonist, sculptor, author
  - Bill Amend, cartoonist/creator of FoxTrot
  - Weird Al Yankovich, singer-songwriter, producer, author
  - Wesley Chan, Ted Fu, Philip Wang, filmmakers/YouTubers

The top 5 California daily newspapers by circulation are the Los Angeles Times, The San-Diego Union-Tribune, Orange County Register, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
California is home to KWG, KNX, and KCBS which are the sixth, seventh, and eighth oldest radio stations respectively in the United States.
UCLA’s Film & Television Archive is the second largest moving image archive in the United States and the world’s largest university-based media archive.