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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There may be no cost to license things in the public domain, but there are still be costs of storage and delivery, as well as other things like creating any meta data needed to categorize the films, create title images and teasers and the like. There may also be costs with acquiring media to digitize or previously digitized media.
Being in the public domain doesn’t mean the content is entirely free.
There are legit places to find public domain content for free or nominal fees.
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