Copyright Facts for the State of Missouri

Jobs
- The motion picture and television industry supported 8,476 direct jobs and 1,663 production related jobs.
- The software industry supported 50,453 direct jobs and 115,921 jobs in total.
- The printing and publishing industries supported 26,570 jobs, and was the creative industry that supported the most number of jobs.
- Local television supported 28,280 jobs.
- Local radio supported 17,700 jobs.
- The app economy supported 89,070 jobs in the computing workforce.
- The creative industries represented 2.5% of total state employment.[1]
Wages
- $333.44 million in wages generated from the motion picture and television industry
- $73.41 million earned by new media and internet platform creators.
- In the local app economy, the average computing salary is $82,745.

State Economic Impact
- Local software industry contributed $8.274 billion to U.S. GDP.
- Local television contributed $13.05 billion to U.S. GDP.
- Local radio contributed $8.12 billion to U.S. GDP.

U.S. Copyright Registrations [2011-2017]
- Total Registrations: 44,040
  - Visual Arts Total: 4,562
  - Performing Arts Total: 9,415
  - Sound Recording Total: 6,594
  - Literary Works: 23,469

Creative Community By the Numbers:
- 30 video gaming companies
- 289 local commercial radio stations
- 31 local commercial television stations
- 4,383 music publishers and 17,927 songwriters
- 152 newspaper publications
- 3,950 graphic designers
- 970 photographers
- 1,510 producers and directors
- 1,300 actors
- 1,220 editors

Creative Spotlight
- Notable creators who hail from the state of Missouri:
  - Don Cheadle, actor
  - Dick Van Dyke, actor/comedian
  - Maya Angelou, poet/writer
  - Mark Twain, author
  - Kate Chopin, author
  - S. Eliot, author
  - Laura Ingalls Wilder, writer
  - Tennessee Williams, writer
  - John Goodman, actor
  - Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher
  - Kate Chopin, writer
  - Walt Disney, entrepreneur and animator
  - Ub Irweks, animator
  - Mort Walker, cartoonist/creator of Beetle Bailey

The top 5 Missouri daily newspapers by circulation are The Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Springfield News-Leader, St. Joseph News-Press, The Jopline Globe
AMC Theatres, was founded in Kansas City, Missouri
Hallmark Cards was founded in Kansas City, Missouri
The world’s first multiplex theatre, the Parkway Twin, was in Kansas City, Missouri
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are set in Mark Twain’s boyhood hometown of Hannibal.
Walt Disney began his artistic career in Kansas City and founded his Laugh-O-Grams Studio in the same city.
The musical styles of Kansas City jazz and St. Louis blues were developed in Missouri. Kansas City remains a hotbed for jazz music and has more than 40 area nightclubs that feature jazz on a regular basis.
The film Winter’s Bone was filmed in Missouri.