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When a vampire not called Dracula bested the copyright system, and what it tells us about derivative works

The IPKat

It is here that the story, as a copyright matter, become murky. It was one thing to get excited about the possibility of making a vampire movie; it was another when the focus was taking the best of the German expressionistic cinema tradition, then in vogue, to do a movie version of Dracula. The movie had entered cinema oblivion.

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Public Domain Day 2025 is Coming: Here’s What to Know

Copyright Lately

public domain officially welcomes the comic debuts of Popeye and Buck Rogers, alongside classic works by Faulkner, Hemingway, and landmark sound films from the year talkies took over. copyright law does not, in fact, require adaptations of newly freed works to transform cherished childhood memories into homicidal maniacs.