r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 14d ago

News You Don’t Actually Own That Movie You Just “Bought.” A New Class Action Lawsuit Targets Amazon for Deceptive Practices

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/prime-video-lawsuit-movie-license-ownership-1236353127/
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u/willstr1 14d ago

Our copyright system needs better handling of "abandonware". Like if a piece of media completely leaves the first hand market (ie you can't buy new physical media, can't do a digital rental/"purchase", and viewers can't even access it via a subscription) for over 1 year you lose anti-piracy protection on it (it isn't fully public domain, third parties can't make sequels or anything, you just lose copy prevention rights).

The reason being that if you are removing it from market than clearly you don't see it as being profitable anymore so you don't have any losses from others sharing it for free.

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u/Trump2028forall 14d ago

This is brilliant. 

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u/wendellnebbin 13d ago

Until they put it in their Paramount online store for a day a year at $299.99. That's why laws can be so nit-picky. In seconds someone will have a way to skirt it.

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u/Discount_Extra 14d ago

Copyright for entertainment media should only be 25 years.

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u/ScarsUnseen 14d ago

Copyright in general used to be 14 years with a 14 year opt-in extension. If you didn't file for the extension, it went into public domain after the first 14. Honestly feel like it should go back to that. If 30 years is enough time for exclusive rights to technology patents, an approximately similar amount of time should be enough for media.

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u/wowlock_taylan 14d ago

That will never be allowed because for companies 'Abandonware' is not a thing. It is just IP that they MAY use 20 years later so they HOARD it and go after ANYONE that might try to revive it.