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Poster: | RadioFreePeru | Date: | Dec 24, 2008 12:49pm |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Wrong film !!!! |
Check:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067457/companycredits
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Poster: | billbarstad | Date: | Dec 24, 2008 3:35pm |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Wrong film !!!! |
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Poster: | Blank Pictures | Date: | Jan 16, 2009 5:10am |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Wrong film !!!! |
Copyright was renewed by Universal in 1959. It's stated on the packaging of their VHS release and obviously can't be found at USCO/LOC website because it was before 1978.
Hope this helps!
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Poster: | billbarstad | Date: | Jan 16, 2009 6:03am |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Wrong film !!!! |
How long does a copyright renewal last?
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Poster: | Video-Cellar | Date: | Jan 16, 2009 6:20am |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Wrong film !!!! |
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Poster: | billbarstad | Date: | Jan 16, 2009 6:33am |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Wrong film !!!! |
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Poster: | Video-Cellar | Date: | Jan 16, 2009 7:35am |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Wrong film !!!! |
This post was modified by Video-Cellar on 2009-01-16 15:35:01
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Poster: | Blank Pictures | Date: | Jan 16, 2009 6:20am |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Wrong film !!!! |
Under the law in effect before 1978, copyright was secured either on the date a work was published with a copyright notice or on the date of registration if the work was registered in unpublished form. In either case, the copyright endured for a first term of 28 years from the date it was secured.
During the last (28th) year of the first term, the copyright was eligible for renewal. The Copyright Act of 1976 extended the renewal term from 28 to 47 years for copyrights that were subsisting on January 1, 1978, making these works eligible for a total term of protection of 75 years.
Public Law 105-298, enacted on October 27, 1998, further extended the renewal term of copyrights still subsisting on that date by an additional 20 years, providing for a renewal term of 67 years and a total term of protection of 95 years.
In plain English, it's in Copyright. Hope this helps everyone! I mean, come on, who REALLY imagines that classic Universal horror is out of Copyright?!
I'm not here to be a spoil sport, I'm not one of those vigilante types, I was just hoping to clear things up a bit! It really annoys me, and the producers/distributors I know when we keep coming across things that are so obviously in Copyright with people (wishfully) thinking that their PD!
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Poster: | Video-Cellar | Date: | Jan 16, 2009 8:14am |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Wrong film !!!! |
This post was modified by Video-Cellar on 2009-01-16 16:14:31
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Poster: | billbarstad | Date: | Jan 16, 2009 2:14pm |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Wrong film !!!! |
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Poster: | Video-Cellar | Date: | Jan 16, 2009 7:57pm |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Wrong film !!!! |
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Poster: | Blank Pictures | Date: | Jan 16, 2009 8:56am |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Wrong film !!!! |
Re: To Kill a Mockingbird, the screenplay and book remain in copyright so I doubt that's PD.
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Poster: | Video-Cellar | Date: | Jan 16, 2009 8:32pm |
Forum: | feature_films | Subject: | Re: Wrong film !!!! |
This post was modified by Video-Cellar on 2009-01-17 04:32:12