Who currently owns the rights to this landmark television special? Is it NBC, Motown Productions or George Schlatter/Ed Friendly Productions?

The 50th anniversary of the special will be on December 2, 2018 and still it has not seen the light of day in any home video format. Thank God for YouTube where it can be enjoyed by the masses and a whole generation who weren't alive to see it when it was first aired.

I have a feeling that the music rights for the non-Motown songs that were performed on the special is what is keeping it from being released. The music publishers licensing fees are probably too expensive to justify even trying to get this released commercially.