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<blockquote data-quote="stick4" data-source="post: 3285158" data-attributes="member: 26023"><p>Thank you Mac! I knew there was more to it but my 75 year comment came from here: </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States</a></p><p></p><p></p><p><em>All motion pictures made and exhibited before 1924 are indisputably in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_in_the_United_States" target="_blank">public domain in the United States</a>. This date will move forward one year, every year, meaning that films released in 1924 will enter the public domain in 2020, films from 1925 in 2021, and so on.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Before the passage of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act" target="_blank">Copyright Term Extension Act</a> (CTEA) in 1998, the term of copyright in the U.S. was a maximum of 75 years, with the work entering the public domain on January 1 of the 76th year from creation (so, for example, a film made in 1930 whose copyright was properly registered and renewed would enter the public domain on January 1, 2006). As such, all films released before 1923 would have entered the public domain by January 1, 1998. </em></p><p><em>Although the CTEA added 20 years to the terms of all existing copyrights, until 2019, it explicitly refused to revive any copyrights that had expired prior to its passage. On January 1, 2019, the 20 year extension expired and new works began entering the public domain each year thereafter.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stick4, post: 3285158, member: 26023"] Thank you Mac! I knew there was more to it but my 75 year comment came from here: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States[/URL] [I]All motion pictures made and exhibited before 1924 are indisputably in the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_in_the_United_States']public domain in the United States[/URL]. This date will move forward one year, every year, meaning that films released in 1924 will enter the public domain in 2020, films from 1925 in 2021, and so on. Before the passage of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act']Copyright Term Extension Act[/URL] (CTEA) in 1998, the term of copyright in the U.S. was a maximum of 75 years, with the work entering the public domain on January 1 of the 76th year from creation (so, for example, a film made in 1930 whose copyright was properly registered and renewed would enter the public domain on January 1, 2006). As such, all films released before 1923 would have entered the public domain by January 1, 1998. Although the CTEA added 20 years to the terms of all existing copyrights, until 2019, it explicitly refused to revive any copyrights that had expired prior to its passage. On January 1, 2019, the 20 year extension expired and new works began entering the public domain each year thereafter. [/I] [/QUOTE]
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