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Feb 25 14 9:42 PM
chris schillig wrote:Allowing some films -- not to mention books, comic books and cartoons -- to slide into public domain might mean the audience would finally get to see them, albeit from smaller companies that don't have the high overhead of larger companies. If public domain cheapies sold well, it might provide incentive for studios to release better prints onto DVD and tap into the market. So the cheapies could be loss leaders or market tests for official releases. But I think this is not to be. As you mentioned, every time a major copyright lapse looms, the suits find a way to extend it. This protects some great films that already have DVD releases, but it keeps a bunch locked in the vault, too.
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