Talk:United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.

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[edit] Film Libraries?

I'd never before heard "the loss of the studio's rights to their own classic film libraries" was due to the Paramount case. How are the two events linked? --Jeremy Butler 13:54, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

I removed it. Looking back at the edit history, it sounded like someone was speculating that this decision was a factor in a few studios' sale of rights to their libraries. The speculation was probably that the studios lost money because of this decision and had to sell something. Without citations I'm removing all the speculation about this. Tempshill 21:20, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

It is clear that this case was indeed a cataclyst for film studios losing the rights to their library to others. How else would this case have affected the studios, especially since at that time a new art form was rising--that of television. If video killed the radio star, then television killed the silver screen...albeit briefly, of course. Hiphats 03:52, 10 February 2007 (UTC)