Why Bollywood stars are buying rights to their old hit films
“A film is never a single intellectual property, and that’s what catches most people off guard. The master copyright sits atop a stack of separately owned rights: the story, screenplay, dialogue, lyrics, music. Buying the film doesn’t automatically buy you all of that. In a co-production, rights are often split by territory or medium, and if any original rights holder is deceased, you’re now in succession law territory, which in creative estates is rarely clean. Every one of those gaps needs to be closed before you have a title worth owning,” said Isheta T Batra, founder, TrailBlazer Advocates.
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