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Originally Posted by HarryT
Are you suggesting that all content providers should be forced to only sell world-wide rights? The result of that would almost certainly be massively increased prices for the consumer. That's why virtually all video streaming services are single country - the cost of buying right to show it world-wide would be huge, and the legal issues horrendous, with different rights-holders in different countries.
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Plus, only multimedia giants could afford to bid and exercise those rights. And if a smaller player somehow landed them, thru wouldn't be able to deploy the content beyond their native region; they wouldn't have money left to do it.
In ebook terms it would be as if only the BPHs could afford to buy manuscripts. No smaller local publishers. And tradpub authors would be limited to 5 bidders, if any.
A boon for IndiePublishing and Amazon, though.
As they say, be careful what you wish for. You might get it and choke on it.