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Could you explain me why would you have to buy rights to emit House of Cards?
by popekpampam 11y ago
Could you explain me why would you have to buy rights to emit House of Cards?
- witty_username 11y agoPerhaps global rights were sold or something like that?
- runn1ng 11y agoIt's actually not Netflix making the series directly; it's being made by a separate company and Netflix is paying for US rights. Sony has the international rights, if I am not mistaken, and they sold it to different companies across the globe, that now want exclusive rights, so Netflix doesn't eat from their table.
- shalmanese 11y agoNetflix didn't actually "make" House of Cards despite that being the popular public perception. Netflix simply financed the production by buying the streaming rights to all the countries Netflix operated in. TV rights internationally were sold to a patchwork of local TV stations in exchange for exclusivity. Now, Netflix is in those countries, it has to reacquire streaming rights after the exclusivity window has closed.
- icebraining 11y agoEven in the US, it seems they only bought the rights to do the first broadcast, since Comcast has bought the rights to do the re-runs: http://www.wired.com/2014/03/comcast-bites-netflix-snagging-big-show/ http://www.wired.com/2014/03/comcast-bites-netflix-snagging-...