How much do the rarest fights sell for?

Literally not the same. Buffoonery ^.


Property rights as they apply to tangible things probably never should've applied to media in the first place, but especially now in this day and age attitudes that lump them in with the likes of automobiles are increasingly ill-conceived.

 

If you don’t like that example use a photographer as an example. Should photographers be paid for their work?someone down the line used their own resources to make that film . It’s THEIR property. If you don’t like it to bad. They can sell the rights to it to whom ever they want and if that whomever wants to hold onto it that’s to bad. In America there are things called property rights. Different then media rights. Even then media is allowed to hold onto whatever film they possess and not redistribute it. Talk about buffoonery

 

Talking about hundred year old films there is no artistic ownership unless that ownership can be proven and traced in lineage to a present day claimaint (who even knows or cares about the footage's existence), which I'm guessing is quite rare. The person that recorded the fights (and whatever promoter or TV network rep or whichever other entity issued their orders to record it...which are the people who might have originally had an intellectual property claim to even lay on filmed/televised boxing) are long dead. Photographs taken by a professional have copyrights, which are transferable upon the photographer's death (or may never have been theirs in the first place if commissioned work). So no, that's a bad analogy just as cars were.

 

It was considered property when Klompton purchased it. Under the old rules (which you are probably right are slowly dying out), it was desirable from society's standpoint that he have those rights.

Thing is, he *relied* on those rights continuing to exist. Even if you don't believe that those rights should be recognized going forward, it seems to me that it would be inequitable even for a hardline preservationist government (let alone thief) to confiscate Klompton's film. Certainly not without full compensation.

(But if it did, I should be given all of it.)

 

Anything from 1923 or earlier is public domain.

 

Do you mean Daniel at Sweet fights? Solid guy, I purchased some stuff from him.

[url]http://sweetfights.com[/url]

Some of his stuff is on you tube.

[url]https://www.youtube.com/user/sweetfights/videos[/url]