Post by AJLe » January 2nd, 2019, 6:01 pm

class316 wrote: ↑ January 2nd, 2019, 4:30 pm I don't know how the rights issues here would work here, but if watch the video surely was technically a WCW PPV as Eric Bischoff was involved in its production and booking. Or at the very least co produced by WCW. I don't know how the rights issues here would work here, but if watch the video surely was technically a WCW PPV as Eric Bischoff was involved in its production and booking. Or at the very least co produced by WCW.

What Bischoff personally did on the show means nothing. The wrestling show was part of an event created and put on by the North Korean government. If they didn't contractually grant WCW ownership or re-broadcast rights to the show, he can't just shrug his shoulders and say "Well, I booked it, so it's ours to do whatever we want with the footage."I'm guessing that the Koreans granted NJPW and WCW the footage rights to certain matches that involved their wrestlers, and obviously licensed WCW the footage of the matches on the PPV back when they did, but that didn't necessarily mean that their deal allowed WCW permanent ownership of that footage. And since (to the best of my knowledge), the complete wrestling shows have never been released commercially anywhere, the Koreans never licensed the show as a whole. Heck, we don't even know for sure that all of the matches on both nights were even professionally filmed. And since the North Korean government isn't exactly stable and friendly right now, I doubt WWE wants to open up another Crown Jewel PR nightmare by negotiating with them for the footage rights.