"Actively Commissioning" and "Subsidizing" are two different contexts. Your points are all accurate, but commissioning a movie means actually going out and saying, "we want this movie, and will pay/provide resources to it in order for it to get done", versus "your doing a movie with military, we'll provide resources in compensation for a meddlers credit".
The ICO in the UK is pretty good... I used to work on their CRM system and it was an eye opener how little, and also how big the things they investigated were.
As "three dead trolls in a baggie" famously sung... "Every OS Sucks".
As true today as when it was first penned.