| ▲ | olalonde 8 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> Remember, Termination is one of the only copyright policies that solely benefits creative workers. To play devil's advocate, this provision probably lowers how much media companies are willing to pay when acquiring copyrights. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | vessenes 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
It doesn't, in practice. Consider the NPV of year 36 with, say, a 10% discount rate. It's low. Also, having watched directly some fairly famous friends deal with property coming up on the 35 year mark, media companies are adept at tying in other deals, finally getting projects financed, cutting a deal for a different project with some agreements made about the original property.. You can imagine. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | vintermann 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Probably not, because of the monopoly power mentioned - and also because you can't count on a copyright to be worth anything after 35 years. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | SiempreViernes 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Why? A publishers goal is always to pay nothing at all for the rights, at best this is simply another excuse. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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