50 years would be MORE than enough to then make the work public. By that time, the artist/family/label has made 99% of the profits they will ever make on the work. At that point it's time to go ahead and archive it and let it be in the public domain. There's also nothing stopping the original family/label from still putting it out there and labeling it as "the one and only original".
The content producer should be telling HBO "it's not feasible to give you the rights for a whole year like that, because by then we will have next to no retail proposition, and in the meantime people will be pirating, all just because you want to rerun it once".
50 years
50 years would be MORE than enough to then make the work public. By that time, the artist/family/label has made 99% of the profits they will ever make on the work. At that point it's time to go ahead and archive it and let it be in the public domain. There's also nothing stopping the original family/label from still putting it out there and labeling it as "the one and only original".
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The content producer should be telling HBO "it's not feasible to give you the rights for a whole year like that, because by then we will have next to no retail proposition, and in the meantime people will be pirating, all just because you want to rerun it once".
Well I hope they are planning on suing the hotel. I would think offering public facilities like that for hire, they are not allowed to discriminate.