On: SCOTUS: Patent Rights Over a Printer Cartridge Are Exhausted When It Is Sold

[caf]

The simplest fix might be a mandated license for streaming old content where the royalties go to a collection agency and can be claimed by the rightsholders when they finally show up.

[Nition → caf]

Maybe limit the collection time as well, so e.g. Any funds that have been sitting without a valid claim for more than a year go back to the BBC.

[pfisch → caf]

Except there might be a lot of rightsholders in the different territories. Figuring out how to disperse the revenue could be very difficult.

It is a weird idea to steal art from people and force them to sell it to others.

[caf → pfisch]

Compulsory licenses have precedent in the music industry.