Crucially, Leaving Neverland could not secure licensing for Jackson’s music. The film therefore lacks the sonic glue that usually holds music documentaries together. This absence is telling: the entertainment industry protects its own IP. When a documentary threatens the revenue stream (posthumous album sales, Vegas shows, Broadway musicals), the industry weaponizes copyright law. Leaving Neverland reveals the genre’s boundary condition: a documentary about entertainment can only be truly critical if it is willing to be silent—stripped of the very songs that give the industry its power.
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