Re: [d@DCC] Pirating is Illegal! [Was: Movie copyright duration]

From: Charles MacDonald <cmacd _-at-_ telecomottawa.net>
To: "General Copyright Discussions (questions, organizing, etc)" <discuss (at) list.digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:08:27 -0400
References: <99a6c38f0707221414q6d3b0a74te542ecc77278f44e@mail.gmail.com> <46A3CF76.1090606@mail.mcgill.ca>

Jonathan Addleman wrote:

> (I'm referring to http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html to check
> this out)
> Copyright in the States before 1976 lasted for 28 years (with
> registration) with a chance to renew for 28 more. So assuming they
> extended the copyright as long as they could, it would have expired in
> 1937+28+28 = 1993.
> 
> Looks to me like it's public domain! Of course, any extra features on
> the DVD might still be protected.

They might also claim that by taking the original elemnets and combining
them info a form that can be put on DVD that the B&W version was also a
new deritivtive work.  They for example probaly don't have the "printer
lights" (scene by scene exposure adjustments) that were used in the
original printing, and so the film may have had to be "re-timed" to get
the exposure right.  Scratch removal, "dust busting", and fixing missing
or damaged frames are all digital steps that they may claim as creative
transformations.

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