How Random Babbling Becomes Corporate Policy (t3knomanser) wrote,
How Random Babbling Becomes Corporate Policy
t3knomanser

Factoid

So Night of the Living Dead is in the public domain. Now, this breaks that 1932 rule of thumb (anything prior to 1932 is pubdom), and it's a profitable franchise, so they would have renewed the copyright- so why is it pubdom?

Originally, NoLD was called Night of the Flesh Eaters. They had a full title screen with the little © symbol and everything.

When they changed the title, they left off the ©- and by a quirk of copyright law prior to 1976, anything without the © was automatically pubdommed. Suffice to say, Romero was a bit red-faced over that one.


And a bit of warning- I'm probably going to be putting together some other images tonight, so be prepared for me to spam your friends pages again. What can I say; I'm feeling creative.
Subscribe

  • Strange Things People Say About Me (to my face)

    Recently, I've been at the center of a trend. That trend is complete strangers asking me "Are you ____?" A quick summary. For example: Are you…

  • Writer's Block: If I could find my way

    -10,000 years, at minimum. Tomorrow is always better than today, especially when you can't fact-check.

  • Bob Morlang

    When I was working at Tri-Mount, we had these camp trucks. They were army surplus, and while they could take a beating, they only sort of worked. And…

  • Post a new comment

    Error

    Comments allowed for friends only

    Anonymous comments are disabled in this journal

    switch
    default userpic

    Your IP address will be recorded 

    Help
  • 0 comments