Cartman
Flute Player
From what I understand, the reason why companies who own the rights to a lot of these vintage cartoons (i.e. Sony owning Columbia cartoons) don't release their cartoons on any format is because they don't believe it will generate enough income.
My question is, if they don't think the cartoons will generate enough income through sales, why do they continue to spend the money to renew the copyrights rather than just either selling the rights to someone else or letting the films lapse into the public domain?
My question is, if they don't think the cartoons will generate enough income through sales, why do they continue to spend the money to renew the copyrights rather than just either selling the rights to someone else or letting the films lapse into the public domain?