PUBLIC DOMAIN
I have heard this is in PD. Anybody know? If so, it's hard to believe.
shareIt is. to quote another person who explained this
The almost incredible story is that Universal Pictures neglected to display a copyright notice in the film credits, so by law "Charade" has been in the public domain since the day it premiered in 1963. As a result, when the American Film Institute started promoting videos by issuing "best picture" lists years later, Universal had no financial incentive to promote this masterpiece. "Charade" is the finest romantic-comedy-thriller in movie history.
You can watch it on internet archive http://archive.org/details/charade1963
however some argue that its not in PD because it has music in it that is copyrighted. personally i think that is stupid because universal obviuosly got the proper documents to use the music in the movie and then it was up to them to release it to pd or not, and the music authors have no right to claim anything.
then again, american laws are far form logical. 49 year old movies should be PD regardless. then again, 50 years was the line before they pushed the 2010 lobbyism to "Save mickey mouse" that made it life+95 years. IMO Mickey should have been public domain due to it becoming a symbol LONG TIME AGO. but you have to make those golden castles somehow universal right?
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49 year old movies should be PD regardless.
Not so. The copyright of anything - music, literature, films - can be (and usually is) renewed by the holder of the copyright in good time for another set period in order to avoid its copyright lapsing.
Only when the copyright has been allowed to lapse does it fall into the public domain. share
I know how the current laws currently are. pehaps you need glasses because you failed to read a simple word "should", which implies that the way it currently is is not the right way.
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updated link https://archive.org/details/Charade19631280x696
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