You don’t actually own media that you have on DVD.
You still only have a license to view it (under certain circumstances), and the media is protected by DRM. You can sell your license to someone else, transferring the license by selling them the media. But, you don’t actually own the media itself, just the plastic disc. You can’t show the media for profit. You can’t even show it if there’s a profit somewhere nearby – like showing it at a bar for free while people are paying for drinks and stuff. And, you definitely can’t do things the “owner” can do, like license it to someone else.
In theory your license can also be revoked. It’s hard to do because most DVD players didn’t / don’t connect to the Internet, so they can’t get updated lists of licenses that have been revoked. But, it’s possible that happens. I’m sure that will be a “feature” that will be added to any new DVD players that are made.
You don’t actually own media that you have on DVD.
You still only have a license to view it (under certain circumstances), and the media is protected by DRM. You can sell your license to someone else, transferring the license by selling them the media. But, you don’t actually own the media itself, just the plastic disc. You can’t show the media for profit. You can’t even show it if there’s a profit somewhere nearby – like showing it at a bar for free while people are paying for drinks and stuff. And, you definitely can’t do things the “owner” can do, like license it to someone else.
In theory your license can also be revoked. It’s hard to do because most DVD players didn’t / don’t connect to the Internet, so they can’t get updated lists of licenses that have been revoked. But, it’s possible that happens. I’m sure that will be a “feature” that will be added to any new DVD players that are made.
Copyright sucks.
Copyright is also how people can afford to make the content
Free and open source software depends on copyright as well.
not really, free and open source software is a movement to abolish (most of) copyright for software
Which is why it extends to… checks notes 75 years after their death.
Thanks, Disney!
Yep. It’s just way too long