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1. Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Apr-2022 13:21:41 UTC Tagomago

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   • Andrew (Television Executive)
   • Terry Hancock

   @TerryHancock @ajroach42 At least not extended! 😓 Maybe also restricting their alienation from authors would reduce the carnage.

   • Terry Hancock (terryhancock@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 18-Apr-2022 13:21:48 UTC Terry Hancock

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     • Andrew (Television Executive)

     @ajroach42
     Yeah, Universal, Disney, Time-Warner, ... they're all like giant drains that suck up the rights to all culture and ransom it to us. In perpetuity, if they could.

     Copyright terms need to be SHORTENED!

   • Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Apr-2022 13:21:49 UTC Andrew (Television Executive)

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     Filmation's in house assets, including Ghost Busters, were sold to Halmark in the 90s.

     Halmark media was purchased by Entertainment rights who was purchased by Boomerang media, later renamed Classic media, later acquired by Dreamworks and renamed Dreamworks classics.

     Ultimately, dreamworks was acquired by Universal, who now own 100% of the rights to Ghostbusters, and are unlikely to sell them or anything else, because they're a monstrous megacorp.

     I should do this research for more old media properties, but I imagine the answer is going to be the same most of the time.

   • Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Apr-2022 13:21:51 UTC Andrew (Television Executive)

     I wonder who owns the rights to Filmation's Ghost Busters toy production today.

     I wonder how hard that would be to track down.