Hello, I'm interested in buying the licenses for movies/tv shows for puting them online. Can somebody please tell me the procedure and which company should I contact? Thnx. GledisK
If you are talking about well-known shows, you are looking at a huge sum of money for licensing rights. Netflix just inked a deal for a reported $100 million just to stream "Mad Men" episodes.
Seems like a big investiment :/ Anyways what about the movies? PS: Can you please send me the netflix link for that deal?
In all fairness, that "just" is the critical point -- Netflix wanted exclusive syndication rights. However, the point is still the same, licensing fees for most movies/shows would be outrageously expensive...there's a reason studios enforce their copyrights in terms of keeping them off YouTube, it's lost revenue. On the same token, this is also why real television networks must use commercials, which are not cheap to purchase, in order to offset the costs associated with rights to such content. Also, I think the OP will find that if the content is available online through CDNs (Hulu, etc), networks will have little to no interest in reducing their market share.
BlockBuster should have fought back with netflix, rather then mosting going out of business, then they should have come back as "get your next adventure from, BlockBuster.com" even a low budget movie can cost a bucket load of money, and no movie/dealer is going to give you sole rights for pennies on the dollar, which is what you are really looking for.... i am not sure where netflix got their money before they stepped up to the plate, but they had to step up with mega loads of money, most likely more then we can even count too... they would have to buy distribution rights, marketing, advertising, machines, people to service those expensive machines...we are talking booku amounts of money.....