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Originally Posted by Michael Brooke  Just to answer a question a few posts back, restorations are NOT in the public domain: for copyright purposes they count as new works.
None of which will prevent chancers claiming otherwise, of course - when I was at the BFI we caught someone who'd blatantly nicked the 1903 Alice in Wonderland restoration and pulled the "public domain" excuse, even though the BFI owned what is believed to be the only surviving copy even before they restored it - so the only way he could have got hold of it would be from ripping it from a BFI DVD, which is illegal in itself.
On the other hand, if you stumble upon an original 1903 print yourself, there's nothing to stop you releasing it. |
Would I be right in thinking though that a number of restorations to undertaken by the bfi are done primarily in the interest of artistic/historic preservation as opposed to making a financial profit?