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 Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:48 pm |
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Does anybody the current Copyright status of CHARADE. I understand the
original prints contained a defective
copyright notice and the film went into the public domain.
I understand that UNIVERSAL's lawyers used some legal argument to
regain Copyright. Did this matter go to Court.? What is the current
Copyright status of the film?
Regards,
Peter Mason |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:11 am |
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On Jan 8, 3:48 am, cine...@hotmail.com wrote:
Quote: Does anybody the current Copyright status of CHARADE. I understand the
original prints contained a defective
copyright notice and the film went into the public domain.
I understand that UNIVERSAL's lawyers used some legal argument to
regain Copyright. Did this matter go to Court.? What is the current
Copyright status of the film?
Regards,
Peter Mason
Yes, the copyright notice in the print is incomplete, just saying
"MCMLXIII BY UNIVERSAL PICTURES COMPANY, INC. and STANLEY DONEN FILMS,
INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.", leaving out the word "Copyright" or the
copyright symbol, which was required at the time. However, Universal
has, in the past few years been keeping people from distributing it
because the music in the film is covered by another separate
copyright. Several companies have found similar loopholes to "save"
movies which have fallen into the public domain, i.e. some movies have
been withdrawn from the public domain, despite a missing copyright
notice, because they are based on a book or short story which is
copyrighted.
So if you want to screen this movie for free, you're probably out of
luck, unfortunately. If you want to use frames of the movie for some
other project though, I think that would be legal. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:12 pm |
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On 2008-01-29 03:11:07 -0800, michaelmtripp@gmail.com said:
Quote: Several companies have found similar loopholes to "save"
movies which have fallen into the public domain, i.e. some movies have
been withdrawn from the public domain, despite a missing copyright
notice, because they are based on a book or short story which is
copyrighted.
The infamous "It's a Wnoderful Life" gambut ... asserting that the
copyright on the music logically extends to the out-of-copyright
picture and associated dialog.
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Peter |
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| Steve Kraus |
| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:17 pm |
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Quote: The infamous "It's a Wnoderful Life" gambut ... asserting that the
copyright on the music logically extends to the out-of-copyright
picture and associated dialog.
Doesn't that mean someone could remove the music (using fancy techniques or
voice doubles for those places they are mixed), slap on a new score, and
reissue it free and clear? |
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| peterh5322 |
| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:39 pm |
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On 2008-01-30 14:17:49 -0800, Steve Kraus
<screen@SPAMBLOCKfilmteknik.com> said:
Quote: The infamous "It's a Wnoderful Life" gambut ... asserting that the
copyright on the music logically extends to the out-of-copyright
picture and associated dialog.
Doesn't that mean someone could remove the music (using fancy techniques or
voice doubles for those places they are mixed), slap on a new score, and
reissue it free and clear?
Absolutely true, and it would work especially well if one had the M&E
mix and the separate dialog mix.
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Peter |
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