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How does that have anything to do with legislation and not licensing contracts that Lionsgate has previously agreed to?

• luso_brazilian 11y ago
  Copyright legislation is country by country basis and needs to be "navigated" as such given the differences in legislation. Although there are global companies that have the resources to do it worldwide it still makes more sense to license IP to national distributors [1] and give them exclusivity in their local markets. This closes the doors to global digital players like Steam or Spotify, for instance. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_distributors_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_distributors_by_c...
  • toyg 11y ago
    That might have been the argument 15 or even 10 years ago; but in the age of Netflix, Amazon and Spotify, the real reason is only one: price segmentation. Differentiating by country is a straightforward way to price-segment to account for (immense) income disparities across the world in order to maximize revenue and publicity. Everything else is an excuse to justify this state of things without calling it with its real name.
    • pbhjpbhj 11y ago
      >a straightforward way to price-segment to account for (immense) income disparities across the world // There's price expectation and competition to take account of too.