Would we see more films on Blu-ray if copyright expired like it used to?

[Bk_Tan]

Good points.

I suppose I'm coming from the idea that there will always be casualties.

Right now, we may not be able to see it because movies are still relatively young.

However, say, 50 years down the line, more than half of movies released in 2015 would be forgotten, maybe 75% would be out of print. It would only get worse the older the movies get.

The pro-public domain is about creativity. When it is necessary, creativity will grow as opposed to the stagnation that I believe we are seeing today.

If a studio has a large library, how can they take advantage of it and make sure that their product is the one that is bought, or they could presumably sell off their copy to someone who might have the money to restore it.

I mean, I am relatively young and never lived in the States, so glancing at the majority of studio movies released even in 2000, I have no clue what they are already. Many haven't even made the jump to Blu-Ray and I am interested in movies. What about those who are more casual?

Whether music, movies or books, it feels as if a lot of culture is just wasting away. Granted, that is what time does and with finite resources, not everything will be saved or even if saved, will be seen again. Yet, you would think that those that truly make an impact will continue to last and those that aren't will be the ones that by their own lack of merit, fade away. (Say Blade Runner Vs Alvin and the Chipmunks 3) Either way, both are given the chance to live on in this scenario whereas how we have it now, if Warner decided to stop releasing Blade Runner, 50 years from now, no one will care about it too. They have the power whereas we do if copyright expires.

I understand that, you're right, there will be a lot of low quality cash grabbers of already widely existing popular flicks, but just like anything else, quality often prevails. It might take a couple years to sort through, but if people are learned to opportunities then it will last. There was a survey conducted where books written in the 1800s are more widespread today than those published in the 1940s etc.

Just like how certain movies made impressions on you in the past, and you'd like to see them saved or pushed to a wider audience, I feel the same way or would feel the same way about films now that obviously would quickly fall down the pecking order at studios as the years go by. The value of most films continue to decrease because less and less people know about their existence and when they remain in vaults that will continue to be the case. Why release a 1940 film in 2025 when 90% of people who would have remembered it would be dead?

There needs to be innovation and as things stand, there isn't any.