I would like to know what movies are legal to copy, distribute, broadcast (public domain).
Here are some problems I found. What version? What list? What source?
I often find differences in lists of movies, especially in year and duration. Many of the differences are one year. But as an extreme example:
Desert Island Films Drama-Comedy LASER MISSION 1990 83 C BRANDON LEE
Desert Island Films Horror-SCI-FI LASER MISSION 1982 C BRANDON LEE
Festival Films FFPDCatalog Laser Mission Action, Adventure, Crime 1989 USA-German-So. African 95M Brandon Lee, Ernest Borgnine, Debi Monahan, Werner Pochath, Graham Clarke
Everyone else I found says 1990. The website at public domain torrents only lists title.
And (List of films in the public domain in the United States from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) does not list Laser Mission (and many other pd movies). I guess the list is not complete?
Mill Creek Entertainment (and probably other distributors) distributes many public domain movies, and on the DVD with those movies it also displays a statement saying that is not legal to copy. Can someone please explain this paradox? I understand the menu is copyrighted, but the statement seems to imply the video content, VOB file.
And while on this subject, is all the content at archive.org legally public domain?
Here are some problems I found. What version? What list? What source?
I often find differences in lists of movies, especially in year and duration. Many of the differences are one year. But as an extreme example:
Desert Island Films Drama-Comedy LASER MISSION 1990 83 C BRANDON LEE
Desert Island Films Horror-SCI-FI LASER MISSION 1982 C BRANDON LEE
Festival Films FFPDCatalog Laser Mission Action, Adventure, Crime 1989 USA-German-So. African 95M Brandon Lee, Ernest Borgnine, Debi Monahan, Werner Pochath, Graham Clarke
Everyone else I found says 1990. The website at public domain torrents only lists title.
And (List of films in the public domain in the United States from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) does not list Laser Mission (and many other pd movies). I guess the list is not complete?
Mill Creek Entertainment (and probably other distributors) distributes many public domain movies, and on the DVD with those movies it also displays a statement saying that is not legal to copy. Can someone please explain this paradox? I understand the menu is copyrighted, but the statement seems to imply the video content, VOB file.
And while on this subject, is all the content at archive.org legally public domain?