[Young Optimus14]

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Originally Posted by Locke

The only reason to keep these franchises ticking over is because big businesses have the mentality of small children. If they let copyright just...sit for x amount of time, it goes up for grabs again. This was a measure to stop the companies who were buying out copyright for things and just sitting on it. They had no interest in using the rights they had acquired, they just wanted to stop anyone else from using it. Now these things HAVE to be used, and there is only a several year window before the copyright is snatched from your grubby fingers and given to someone else. Something I'm guessing people like Fox and Sony don't dare do these days with the Marvel Movieverse behemoth cleaning house.

They're also probably trying to ride the big super hero wave right now and thus make more money