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Charade
1963 · Film · 113 min
Directed by Stanley Donen
After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines.
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Sort of like how the movie Charade staring Carry Grant and Audrey Hepburn is public domain (due to failure to file back when that was required in the 1970's) but the soundtrack is not. So the music is in the pubic domain only when played in the movie but played separately the music is still protected.
The same thing happened to the 1963 movie "Charade" (with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charade_(1963_film)#Public-domain_status
I agree with the article, and I find many of the comments here insightful. Relationships with some of my old school adversaries were healed when they attended my son's funeral.
The movie Charade is sort of about the bad effects of a poorly attended funeral. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8FA5zBHiFA
> Copyright, at least in the U.S., is automatic.
It is now, but back then a work was public domain if released without a valid copyright notice.
Charade, a 1963 film, entered the public domain immediately on release.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charade_(1963_film)#Public-domain_status
Gregory Peck made a lot of great movies. Charade and North by Northwest are both very good.
Apologies for chiming in, but I wonder is you can give a piece of advise for someone who discovered Cary Grant movies just a short while ago?
Recommended Arsenic and Old Lace weren't enjoyable at all (Grant played amazingly though), but the Philadelphia Story (best movie I've seen in years), Charade, North by Northwest, Father Goose - those are amazing masterpieces which I enjoyed a lot.
You're missing out. If nothing else, you have to watch North By Northwest, but there are so many great Cary Grant movies, it's hard to pin down a "must watch" list. Everything from Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House through That Touch of Mink and onto Charade or To Catch A Thief and dozens more in between. And my all-time favorite, Father Goose. And I've left out some of his best ones; those are just the ones that spring to mind that weren't necessarily mentioned in the article (there are plenty in there, too).
Seriously, do a search for best Cary Grant movies and go seek some out; even though nobody can agree on the order of said lists, everyone agrees which movies should be on there.
> Shouldn't their family left behind be able to enjoy some of the profits for a period of time?
It doesn't take copyright to make a profit off of a work. the Criterion Collection includes Charade, which is out of copyright: https://www.criterion.com/films/603-charade
I'm sure the children of the author can come up with inventive ways of selling the work.
Ok so first directly to your point are some envelopes I found recently that my Grandma had with what would have been potentially valuable stamps from the 1960s when stamp collecting was in its heyday. What actually happened is that many people were excited by the unusual prices paid for stamps at the time and hoarded what they thought would be valuable stamps in the future. (it even hit pop culture: the 1963 movie Charade is about someone who smuggled millions of dollars on a sheet of paper of priceless stamps)
As a result, when I was pricing these recently, they were apparently collected by every other 1960s hobbyist and put in a shoebox. You combine that with the fad of stamp collecting waning and now the first-issue, day-1, limited-edition 55 year old stamp is put up for a few dollars (and usually doesn't sell even then), because every one of them were snatched up.
Second, here's two other of my near-million misses:
I was in an early talk in the bay with what eventually became YouTube.
It went like this "yeah that's fine but what about real player? They tried all this already. On demand video isn't a new idea. Just another flying car. I wish you luck."
Then there was the time I worked in Venice and there was this small company called snapchat and i was like "isn't this a busy and well established market already? Don't consumers have things like MMS, imo, and a myriad of other options?"
Who knows, maybe if I did join then my dismissive pessimism would have been instrumental in their failure on some alternative timeline.
I think the right analysis here is that both companies succeeded because the demographic of who could access the technology and for what purpose changed ... so the same idea in different hands did different things. It really opens up the analysis when considering these as essentially commodity startups.
Hah, just watched the movie Charade last night where exactly this happens.