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HektorT |
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June 23, 2010 04:31:56pm |
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Re: Tulsa Isn't PD |
>>Nothing here is easy. Let me make a far-ranging caveat by saying that in the country I'm from (USA), a hired lawyer will claim with documents and a straight face that the moon is green cheese and belongs to one Wade Williams. I do appreciate the efforts of many contributors here to clarify PD issues. It's a wiggly world.<<
I'm American too and i can't get my lawyers to say anything straight up. It's more like the moon is green cheese, but sometimes green cheese looks like green cheese but it really isn't. So you shouldn't let anybody eat it in your house without a disclosure.
Anyway, on the subject of Public Domain in the US even judges don't agree on many things. So our job here is just to cover the basics. Like, if there is no renewal for a pre 1964 film, and there are no underlying rights, then it is most likely PD.
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picfixer |
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June 25, 2010 09:11:03am |
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Pointless historical anecdote: "Tulsa" was the first movie I recorded on my first VCR, a 50 lb top-loader. The second was "Sinbad the Sailor" (1947).
This post was modified by picfixer on 2010-06-25 16:11:03
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cosmico |
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June 25, 2010 09:21:54am |
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Re: Tulsa Isn't PD |
We had a local TV station that ran a lot of old westerns and horror films, and I taped many of them on my first Betamax machine. Virtually all of those same old movies are now here on the IA. Good thing, because I used crappy blank tapes ("PD Magnetics" from DuPont, anyone remember that brand?), and they all went to hell in under 5 years.
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