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NicolaBattista.net |
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July 13, 2012 01:46:09am |
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Song of the South? |
sorry if this sounds like a dumb question and if it has been asked before. I tried to look in the forums for old posts on the same subject but I couldn't find one asking my exact question.
I know it has been available for ages from some bootleg publishers (I got my copy from one of those).
But was the copyright ever renewed?
copyright.gov mostly has post-1978 info. But hey have some pre-1978 data too and there's nothing about the movie there. Also, a renewal for the Zip-a-dee-doo-dah song shows it's not a Disney copyright (!).
I've read somewhere that its legal status is dubious. The only thing I know for sure is that it is public domain in Japan (pre-1953).
Anyone has more info?
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NicolaBattista.net |
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July 13, 2012 05:04:21am |
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Re: Song of the South? |
I tried to do some research using data from the Renewals listed here in Archive.org.
I checked 1971, 1972 and 1973 since being it a 1946 movie it was supposed to be renewed in 1972 (Disney rereleased it in that year).
According to
http://chart.copyrightdata.com/ch07.html"For works copyrighted 1923-1950, for copyright renewal to be valid, renewal had to occur between the 27th and 28th anniversaries of the date that the initial copyright term began."
This is the renewal I've found:
R564892.
Walt Disney's Song of the South.
By staff of Walt Disney Productions.
© 12Nov46; AA28970. Walt Disney
Productions (PWH); 3Dec73; R564892.
It seems well out of that time frame.
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