I’m glad we’re seeing more theatrical re-releases these days. About 42 weeks of the year there’s no new releases worth watching, so why not have something good on even if it is old.
I think it should be legally mandated that each studio only re-release older movies for one month out of the year. They can stagger their months or do them all the same month, but either way we could all benefit.
Sounds nice, but they’d definitely find some way of gaming the rules so that it ended up going to shit as a concept.
The kinds of people running Amazon-MGM-Paramount-Skydance-Disney-Blackrock-StateStreet-Vanguard are the sort of psychopaths that would deliberately sabotage it just to teach those pesky legislators a lesson about trying to tell them what to do.
Maybe a better idea would be to add public screening of movies over 30 years old under Fair Use, and require studios to share their movies with a copyright library in order to maintain copyright protection for streaming/dvd so that they can’t just DRM the thing itself.
Always seemed insane to me that copyright terms have been extended to the stage where the only people making a profit off a work are people who had nothing to do with its creation.
I’m glad we’re seeing more theatrical re-releases these days. About 42 weeks of the year there’s no new releases worth watching, so why not have something good on even if it is old.
I think it should be legally mandated that each studio only re-release older movies for one month out of the year. They can stagger their months or do them all the same month, but either way we could all benefit.
Sounds nice, but they’d definitely find some way of gaming the rules so that it ended up going to shit as a concept.
The kinds of people running Amazon-MGM-Paramount-Skydance-Disney-Blackrock-StateStreet-Vanguard are the sort of psychopaths that would deliberately sabotage it just to teach those pesky legislators a lesson about trying to tell them what to do.
Maybe a better idea would be to add public screening of movies over 30 years old under Fair Use, and require studios to share their movies with a copyright library in order to maintain copyright protection for streaming/dvd so that they can’t just DRM the thing itself.
Always seemed insane to me that copyright terms have been extended to the stage where the only people making a profit off a work are people who had nothing to do with its creation.