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Interesting too that the $1 DVD market, which started out anonymously about a year ago, is now giving full credit to AMC as its source and is in a number of cases putting out 50s and 60s television programs, but substituting generic synthesized stuff for the original music cues..editions of "Bonanza" and "Burns & Allen" have done this. dl James L Wolf wrote: > I was thinking the the kind of scenario that Mike outlined below, basically a mistaken PD attribution, is not a a "legitimate" PD. Thanks for the clarification, Mike. > > Steve, can you give me a nutshell version of the Kalmus story? Again, the only way I can see anything going out of PD in the US is by the owner proving it shouldn't have gone in the first place. > > James > > >>> [log in to unmask] 06/20/05 3:19 PM >>> > At 02:03 PM 6/20/2005 -0400, James L Wolf wrote: > > >Steve mentioned some copyrights being retrieved, but that was in Europe. > >I've never heard of a legitamate PD item being retrieved/recaptured in the US. > > Note that "legitimate" is an operative word here. That is, works mistakenly > assumed to be public domain have been found still to have protection and > have been withdrawn. IIRC, "It's a Wonderful Life" was reissued as PD > because the copyright had not been renewed. Later it was found that the > music in the film was still under copyright (which had been renewed) and > the reissues were withdrawn. > > Mike > -- > [log in to unmask] > http://www.mrichter.com/