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But that's an entirely different scenario altogether. WWE owns their own tape library and don't need to sign guys up for Legends contracts or anything of the like to re-release items from their own back catalogue. They sign people up to use their likeness for new materials such as action figures, video games etc.
But WWE has been re-releasing all their old PPV anthologies on DVD over the last few years. Now they didn't need to sign up everybody who ever worked, say, a WrestleMania to a Legend contract did they? They can sign a guy to one of those merchandise deals if they want to exploit their name, image, likeness and personality for new purposes - be it documentaries with their involvement on new materials, Hall of Fame inductions, T-shirts, DVDs, figures, games etc. - but they don't need to sign anyone up simply to release old material that they already own outright.
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