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In some cases, a film's copyright has lapsed because of non-renewal while the underlying literary or dramatic source is still protected by copyright; for example, the film His Girl Friday (1940) became a public domain film in 1969 because it was not renewed, but it is based on the 1928 play The Front Page; as a practical matter, the film could ...
The following is a list of animated films in the public domain in the United States for which there is a source to verify its status as public domain under the terms of U.S. copyright law. For more information, see List of films in the public domain in the United States. Films published before 1930 are not included because all such films are in ...
A 2009 film in Swedish by Hanna Sköld: CC BY-NC-SA: RiP!: A Remix Manifesto: a 2008 open-source documentary film about "the changing concept of copyright" and the remix culture [101] [102] directed by Brett Gaylor: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 [103] Sita Sings the Blues: feature-length animated film by free culture activist Nina Paley: CC0 [104] Sanctuary
Thus even if a film dates from 1915 and as such is ineligible for copyright in the United States of America, a 2004 version with new visual or audio elements (including the addition of a new recording of the score of a silent film) may be itself eligible for a 2004 copyright to those new elements.
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Notable films entering the public domain in the United States include Metropolis, [5] the first feature talkie The Jazz Singer, the first Academy Award for Best Picture winner Wings, the lost film London After Midnight, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Napoléon, Alfred Hitchcock's first thriller The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, and the ...
Film director Gaspar Agüero Barreras Cuba: 15 February 1873: 18 May 1951: Pianist, composer Pramathesh Barua India: 24 October 1903: 29 November 1951: Film director, actor, writer Daisy Bates Australia: 16 October 1859: 18 April 1951: Journalist, welfare worker Celadet Alî Bedirxan Turkey: 26 April 1893: 1951 Writer, linguist Frank Weston ...
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