Let&#x27;s assume Lord of the Rings was out of term and then a bunch of shoddily made movies got made based on the story and didn&#x27;t reap much. Would New Line Cinema have laid out the budget for Peter Jackson to make the quality LOTR film trilogy if they didn&#x27;t have exclusive rights to produce the movies? Those films generated huge amounts of revenue - would we have missed out on that if the books were in the public domain, or would the same revenue have been produced by now with it in the public domain?