Re: Is a show Public Domain?
Jon Martin, again, you are talking about Amazon's Marketplace.
Amazon.com, the online retailer, in reference to CD's and DVD's only sells authentic CD's and DVD's produced by the studios who produced or are legally authorized to produce and sell those DVD's.
Amazon Marketplace is a sub-community of individuals and other smaller retailers who sell their merchandise through Amazon.
While all purchases are conducted through Amazon.com, Amazon.com isn't responsible for merchandise sold by or posted through the Amazon.com website.
Before you bring it up, if Amazon.com doesn't normally sell a certain product or doesn't have it available for sale, an individual or smaller retailer who wants to sell a newer product, such as imported toys or imported DVD's and Amazon.com doesn't sell the item directly, then that item is placed on Amazon.com's website for sale via their Amazon Marketplace.
Jon Martin, what has happened is that you've mistaken Amazon.com for Amazon Marketplace. Here, I'll explain further. Click on the following link:
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Amazon Marketplace is Amazon.com's fixed-price online marketplace that allows sellers to offer their goods alongside Amazon's offerings. Buyers can buy new and used items sold directly by a third party through Amazon.com using Amazon Marketplace.
Since Amazon.com doesn't sell the item directly as a company, an individual or smaller retailer can post the item for sale on Amazon.com through the Amazon Marketplace. If you notice, the item is listed but since Amazon.com doesn't sell it directly it's sold through the seller. Click on the seller's information and you're given their Amazon Marketplace information.
This also includes bootleg DVD's. If a seller is intent on selling a bootleg DVD on Amazon, there is no way that Amazon can check the item. However, all of the merchandise that Amazon sells directly is checked and rechecked for unauthorized merchandise such as Bootlegs. Amazon doesn't not sell this kind of merchandise.