| 12/2/2011 1:35 PM |
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n.debrabant
Member since: 10/22/2010 | | Public Domain | How does one go and find out if a show has slipped into public domain or not? I've heard that some shows have gone that way and that is why they aren't being released to the public by the studios. Two I can think of are The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and 12 O'Clock High.
So you could tell who it was from just one sip?
Who it was, what he thought, who he loved, how he died. You have to understand that every drop of blood has your whole life in it. It's not just our food. It's the way we feel life. Imagine if you could know someone's soul just by sharing their blood. Everything you know, everything you are transformed into touch and taste. Imagine the temptation to take just one sip, one sip and then another, then another. To take them inside you and know every secret. To let them know yours. To be them. That's why it's such a tough habit to break. |
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| 12/6/2011 4:50 PM |
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B Ward
Member since: 1/12/2007 | | RE: Public Domain | There are ways to determine. Most of the time, it's going through copyright records. This is available to the public, but there are companies that specialize in doing these searches. In some cases, though, once a series slips into PD, the market gets flooded with it. It's one of the reasons you won't find us releasing too much that's within PD. We don't want to pay the high fees of master use (because even if the copyright to the show is open to the public, the master use is still costly) for product that will compete with lots of other products out there. Hard to make a profit off of shows that are public domain these days. Especially when you're competing with bargain bin material.
Brian
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| 2/23/2012 3:40 PM |
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bencasey
Member since: 5/12/2007 | | RE: Public Domain | | To answer the OP, neither of the shows are PD, nor will they be in your lifetime. And stop shouting. |
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| 2/27/2012 8:19 AM |
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Leslie Eckhardt
Member since: 2/26/2012 | | RE: Public Domain | | I tried to do a copyright search for "Pete and Gladys", a CBS-Paramount owned show from 1960-62. It was difficult to navigate this website, but from what I saw, that series had its copyright renewed in the late 80s to early 90s, meaning that, since I believe copyrights run for 28 years, it would be 56 years from 1960-62 when the series would potentially be in public domain. The site showed the copyright status for each individual episode (there are 72 of them). None of the episodes appeared to have been skipped in this process. This explains why high-profile series like "The Lucy Show", "The Beverly Hillbillies", "The Dick Van Dyke Show", and others have a handful of episodes which have slipped into the public domain. The corporate lawyers involved simply missed these individual shows. All this means that "Pete and Gladys" would not be available in public domain versions much before 2018! Knowing Paramount's penchant for greed (witness their handling of "Dynasty" with their expensive, split-season sets) they won't let this property go, even if they never invest another dime towards it's release. |
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