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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Jan 8, 2013 0:37:23 GMT -5
It has already been remade with zombies, so go for it. Your thinking of Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations was redone with werewolves What about "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters?" |
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 8, 2013 0:50:14 GMT -5
Isn't "Happy Birthday" non-public domain even though it's from the 1800's (I think)? It wasn't copyrighted until 1935. It won't expire until 2030 according to WB, who bought the company that registered the copyright. Isnt just the melody copyrighted? I think you can still use the words if you set it to different music (see the ramones version of happy birthday which doesnt use the HB melody but keeps the words). |
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jan 8, 2013 9:40:36 GMT -5
Didn't Disney appeal from Mickey Mouse being public domain? Disney was an integral part of expanding copyrights to their current term for just that reason. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act "This law, also known as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, Sonny Bono Act, or as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act,[2] effectively "froze" the advancement date of the public domain in the United States for works covered by the older fixed term copyright rules." They can't keep extending it indefinitely though "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." Jack Valenti of the MPAA proposed a copyright term of "forever less one day" |
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Jan 8, 2013 20:58:22 GMT -5
it's a fairy tale. of course it's in public domain.
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Post by frankincleveland on Jan 9, 2013 7:41:33 GMT -5
"Hanzel!?...Hanzel..."
I've never really gotten that Looney Tunes joke. What's it a reference to, if anything?
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Jan 9, 2013 11:04:11 GMT -5
"Hanzel!?...Hanzel..." I've never really gotten that Looney Tunes joke. What's it a reference to, if anything? I always thought it was just the inherent hilarity of the name "Hansel". |
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Post by B'Cup x on Jan 9, 2013 12:28:23 GMT -5
Some of the Public Domain stuff annoys me. J M Barrie gave the copyright of Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. Now because a certain amount of time has gone by, that hospital could lose out on a lot of revenue. the backlash of public opinion for being the first company to decline proceeds to a childrens hospital would be far greater than giving GOSH the money for the adaptation, so I imagine they will still benefit for a rather long time from the story x |
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