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I bet Netflix would absolutely love to provide all of these movies. I don't have any insider knowledge, but given their past behavior, I cannot help but think t
by JustSomeNobody 10y ago
I bet Netflix would absolutely love to provide all of these movies. I don't have any insider knowledge, but given their past behavior, I cannot help but think the content providers (of which a lot are owned by cable cartels) are preventing this. They are either prohibitively pricing the movies or are trying to dictate too many terms under which viewers have access to the movies. Then there's the fact that some of these movies didn't exist in a "streaming" world and so their licenses (for the music, etc) don't take this into account and so all that has to be renegotiated (which goes back to the prohibitive pricing, surely).
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoIf we had 20 year copyright terms then most of the back catalogue issues would be moot. Companies would have to get their act together and make the most of licensing new works with the added competition of others offering only PD works. Of course the poor starving actors of all those old movies -- Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, etc. -- would perish under such a regime. They might even stop making new works! /s
- talmand 10y agoThere actually has been a few shows on Netflix that had their iconic intro music pulled because they weren't licensed to play the music on a streaming service. Married With Children and Charmed are two I remember.