19 Jan
2003
19 Jan
'03
8:21 a.m.
I wrote:
> Demonstrably false. UCLA has restored many films
that the
> studios weren't willing to spend a penny on; some still in
> copyright but most expired. In general they've done a much
> better restoration job than the studios usually do.
Wayne M. Smith wrote:
Perhaps I need to write a bit more clearly. The
antecedent for "this
simply doesn't happen" in my post is "studios . . . spend huge amounts
of money to restore the prints for issue in DVD format." UCLA, last
time I looked, is not a studio. Academia is almost always an exception
to any general rule.
If you're trying to argue that works entering the public domain don't
get preserved, you can't simply choose to ignore academia on the basis
that it's an inconvenient data point that doesn't fit your model.