[Foundation-l] Donation of DVDs to Wikimedia Foundation Projects

[Gregory Maxwell]

That's, in part, because the ones that have.drifted into the public
domain really haven't:  The PD movies are PD because their copyright
was not renewed, however most of them contain copyrighted plots, or
copyrighted music which were renewed.

Do something really interesting and you can expect rights holders to
show up with their hands out.

On 1/4/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/4/07, Robert Scott Horning <robert_horning at netzero.net> wrote:
>
> > At least with free/open source content you have the option of doing
> > both.  And more.  I'm really curious what will happen with "Steamboat
> > Willy" once it's copyright expires (if it ever does).
> >
>
> Evidence suggests not much since not much has happened to the movies
> that have drifted into the public domain.
>
> --
> geni
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