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Say what you will about Woody Allen as a person. My understanding is that Amazon is holding the rights to a movie that has been created, and refusing to publish

Say what you will about Woody Allen as a person. My understanding is that Amazon is holding the rights to a movie that has been created, and refusing to publish it. Movies are not the product of a single person, but of thousands. It's tragedy to prevent this massive amount of effort from seeing the light of day.

nathanvanfleet 8y ago
But Netflix owns it, and likely doesn't see it as a profitable thing to release it.
- myhf 8y ago
  Actually copyright is given to producers to incentivize them to produce and disseminate creative works. If copyright law is not functioning as intended, we have a moral imperative to abolish it.
simongr3dal 8y ago
As long as the compensation of any of the workers didn’t depend on the financial success of the movie does it really matter?
- maroonblazer 8y ago
  Compensation construed broadly includes future work based on your portfolio. If one did stellar work that otherwise would have yielded future opportunities had the work not been shuttered then the answer is "Yes."
  - gamblor956 8y ago
    A movie doesn't need to be released for the crew to get credits.
    - JetSpiegel 8y ago
      It does to count as credits to the most important group: the audiences.
- throwaway415415 8y ago
  Yes. A lot of the work could have been badly paid but great for one's portfolio.
- seizethecheese 8y ago
  Absolutely. What does the financial aspect of this have to do with anything? A movie created and never viewed is a cost to society with no benefit.
sureaboutthis 8y ago
It's the thing nowadays. Some person allegedly does something wrong and movies and books get pulled off the shelves robbing us of the opportunity to see sometimes great pieces of writing or art. Also see Kevin Spacey. Book burning anyone?
- gdsimoes 8y ago
  I was ready to agree with you but Kevin Spacey was a really bad example.
  - sureaboutthis 8y ago
    Kevin Spacey is a tremendous actor and we all had a lousy close for fans of "House of Cards". One bad example makes my statement incorrect? Even one of the online magazines or newspapers had an article stating the same as I just a few days ago. So I'm wrong? Here is a bad example but Ted Danson did black face at a party about 20 years ago. I presume he will now lose his TV job and be banned from Hollywood while all episodes of "Cheers" get pulled. I am shocked this hasn't happened already.

nathanvanfleet 8y ago

But Netflix owns it, and likely doesn't see it as a profitable thing to release it.

myhf 8y ago
Actually copyright is given to producers to incentivize them to produce and disseminate creative works. If copyright law is not functioning as intended, we have a moral imperative to abolish it.

simongr3dal 8y ago

As long as the compensation of any of the workers didn’t depend on the financial success of the movie does it really matter?

maroonblazer 8y ago
Compensation construed broadly includes future work based on your portfolio. If one did stellar work that otherwise would have yielded future opportunities had the work not been shuttered then the answer is "Yes."
- gamblor956 8y ago
  A movie doesn't need to be released for the crew to get credits.
  - JetSpiegel 8y ago
    It does to count as credits to the most important group: the audiences.
throwaway415415 8y ago
Yes. A lot of the work could have been badly paid but great for one's portfolio.
seizethecheese 8y ago
Absolutely. What does the financial aspect of this have to do with anything? A movie created and never viewed is a cost to society with no benefit.

sureaboutthis 8y ago

It's the thing nowadays. Some person allegedly does something wrong and movies and books get pulled off the shelves robbing us of the opportunity to see sometimes great pieces of writing or art. Also see Kevin Spacey. Book burning anyone?

gdsimoes 8y ago
I was ready to agree with you but Kevin Spacey was a really bad example.
- sureaboutthis 8y ago
  Kevin Spacey is a tremendous actor and we all had a lousy close for fans of "House of Cards". One bad example makes my statement incorrect? Even one of the online magazines or newspapers had an article stating the same as I just a few days ago. So I'm wrong? Here is a bad example but Ted Danson did black face at a party about 20 years ago. I presume he will now lose his TV job and be banned from Hollywood while all episodes of "Cheers" get pulled. I am shocked this hasn't happened already.