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As much as I dislike a number of practices in Hollywood, I don't think that the international distribution problem is a consequence of their contractual terms,
by rincebrain 11y ago
As much as I dislike a number of practices in Hollywood, I don't think that the international distribution problem is a consequence of their contractual terms, but on how distribution rights are region-specific, so Hollywood may not be able to grant distribution rights in a market they already gave an exclusive distribution contract to someone else for.
I would love nothing more than for this to be a trivial problem to be solved by negotiating with one (albeit enormous) loose group of companies, but I don't think that's the problem here.
- msravi 11y agoSo you're saying that studios sign away all current and future distribution rights for all current and future movies that they create to an exclusive distributor for a particular region? It's not done on a per-movie basis? That is so crazy...
- rincebrain 11y agoI believe it's on a per-movie basis, but is exclusive for that distribution region (not necessarily one country). That just makes the problem of getting bulk licenses in multiple locations worse, though.