Why doesn’t every streaming service have public domain movies?

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Since there wouldn’t be any cost associated with getting rights for streaming, why can’t I boot up Nosferatu on whatever platform I happen to be on? To me it seems like the cheapest, easiest thing to do to upload a collection of the most famous public domain movies as a matter of course when setting up a streamer. Is there a specific reason why it mostly isn’t done?

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It’s probably not a huge draw for subscribers. I presume Plex has all of the public domain movies, it certainly has quite a lot of ‘cheap’ content supported by ads and some of it is pretty good.

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