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Poster: Video-Cellar Date: Mar 17, 2009 3:24pm
Forum: feature_films Subject: Re: another list of movies in question

Sorry it has taken so long on this. Been really busy. Haven't even had tiome to look at IA much in the last few weeks. Regards UK films: A lot of the major catalogue distributors (Carlton/Granada , Studio Canal, etc.) have major problems accepting the limitations of the US GATT/URAA restoration terms. As well as this, there are a number of aspects of the transitional sections in the 1988 and 1996 (extension) acts which effectively put most pre-1988 British films under the jurisdiction of the 1956 and 1911 Copyright Acts. So, many British films are still in the UK Public Domain. The rights companies do not accept this and, although many of the below films are technically PD, the rights companies would probably serve C&Ds for exploiting these "loopholes" in the law. And it can be argued that GATT protects the post-1945 films in US for the full US copyright term regardless of their status in their home state. Tarzan and the Trappers (1958) is PD Green for Danger (1946) Fall's under the transitional aspects of UK law. Technically PD. See above The Old Dark House (1932) renewed R258433(1960) Not PD. Big Fella (1937) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940) Valid GATT Restoration Conquest of the Air (1936) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT Elephant Boy (1937) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT The Drum (1938) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT The Four Feathers (1939) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT HENRY V (1944) Sanders of the River (1935) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT Song of Freedom (1936) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT The Ape Man (1943) Not renewed. PD The Ghost Train (1941) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT The Man in Grey (1943) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT We Dive at Dawn (1943) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT Cottage to Let (1941) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT Miss London Ltd. (1943) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT I Thank You (1941) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT Bees in Paradise (1944) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT Ask a Policeman (1938) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT Boys Will Be Boys (1935) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT Where There's a Will (1936) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT Hey! Hey! USA (1938) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT Convict 99 (1938) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT Good Morning, Boys (1937) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT Old Bones of the River (1938) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT Windbag the Sailor (1936) PD in UK at GATT Date. Not eligible for GATT Les Miserables (1979) Copyright Bugsy Malone (1976) Copyright Caesar the Conqueror (1961) Copyright Campbell's Kingdom (1957) Fall's under the transitional aspects of UK law. Technically PD. See above Capricorn One (1978) Copyright Farewell, My Lovely (1975) Copyright Maroc 7 (1967) Copyright Moulin Rouge (1952) Fall's under the transitional aspects of UK law. Technically PD. See above Follow a Star (1959) Copyright Reach for the Sky (1956) Fall's under the transitional aspects of UK law. Technically PD. See above The Sandwich Man (1966) Copyright Saturn 3 (1980) Copyright Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) Copyright Seven Years in Tibet (1956) Fall's under the transitional aspects of UK law. Technically PD. See above The Card (1952) Fall's under the transitional aspects of UK law. Technically PD. See above The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) Fall's under the transitional aspects of UK law. Technically PD. See above The One That Got Away (1957) Fall's under the transitional aspects of UK law. Technically PD. See above Tiger Bay (1959) Copyright Victim (1961) Copyright Waltz of the Toreadors (1962) Copyright Windom's Way (1957) Fall's under the transitional aspects of UK law. Technically PD. See above A Matter of Life and Death (1946) Fall's under the transitional aspects of UK law. Technically PD. See above Across the Bridge (1957) Fall's under the transitional aspects of UK law. Technically PD. See above Ill Met by Moonlight (1957) Fall's under the transitional aspects of UK law. Technically PD. See above To Be or Not to Be (1942) Copyright. Renewed and technically a US film. The Naked Truth (1957) Fall's under the transitional aspects of UK law. Technically PD. See above Make Mine Mink (1960) Copyright Too Many Crooks (1959) Copyright Black Narcissus (1947) Fall's under the transitional aspects of UK law. Technically PD. See above The Way to the Stars (1945) Fall's under the transitional aspects of UK law. Technically PD. See above Great Expectations (1946) Fall's under the transitional aspects of UK law. Technically PD. See above The Ipcress File (1965) Copyright Twins of Evil (1971) Copyright The Uncanny (1977) Copyright The League of Gentlemen (1960) Copyright The Quiller Memorandum (1966) Copyright
This post was modified by Video-Cellar on 2009-03-17 22:24:26