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Who Now Owns the Copyright...?


...And why are they not making "The Bishop's Wife" available as an expanded DVD form (with old clips, interviews, etc.)?

I'd love to have such a thing for Christmas. They have done great expanded DVD's from 1940s movies; why not "The Bishop's Wife"?

Flanagan

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It's a Samuel Goldwyn production made by RKO ... so most likely MGM controls the rights to this picture rather than Time Warner. But don't quote me on that. :)

From Wikipedia:

In October 1996, Turner Broadcasting was merged into Time Warner, which controls and distributes the bulk of the RKO library today, though RKO Pictures retains the copyright. As for RKO's primary release deals, the Disney pictures originally distributed by the studio are controlled by the Walt Disney Company. Rights to the Goldwyn features released by RKO, which had been held by the Samuel Goldwyn Company, are now controlled by MGM.





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