ext_163621 ([identity profile] lampbane.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] maradydd 2008-04-12 09:55 pm (UTC)

I think the most famous example of the "with notice" thing is the original Night of the Living Dead, which is public domain by accident.

To quoth Wikipedia:

Night of the Living Dead lapsed into the public domain because the original theatrical distributor, the Walter Reade Organization, neglected to place a copyright notice on the prints. In 1968, United States copyright law required a proper notice for a work to maintain a copyright. Image Ten displayed such a notice on the title frames of the film beneath the original title, Night of the Flesh Eaters. The distributor removed the statement when it changed the title.[82] According to George Romero, Walter Reade "ripped us off."[83]

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