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

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There's perennial talk on websites such as these, lamenting the state of physical media and what titles are available from the massive studio inventories.

If not for the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, yet another blight on capitalism, movies (and everything else) up to 1958 would be in the public domain.

So, if that never existed, or is able to be repealed or modified in the future, would all the films rotting away in the studio libraries have a greater chance of seeing daylight and being exposed to the masses who obviously have no idea they exist?

The problem here is that too few own too many and are not willing, for their capitalistic reasons, to release anything. Most of these works then disappear as the generations go by because nobody has the rights to take a chance.

MGM killed the Alamo recently as we all well know. Maybe it's time people talked about this instead of complaining about things that are out of their control.