Golan v. Ashcroftclassic foreign films
originally submitted by John McDonough:
classic foreign films including Sydney Gilliat’s Night Train to Munich, The Demi-Paradise starring Laurence Olivier, Against the Wind, The Baby and the Battleship, The Captive Heart, Doctor Blood’s Coffin, Doctor in Distress, Elizabeth of Ladymead, The Fallen Idol, Forbidden, Green Grow the Rushes starring Richard Burton, Heidi, Intermezzo starring Ingrid Bergman, Jericho, The Night Has Eyes, On Approval, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, The Overlanders, The Private Life of Don Juan starring Douglas Fairbanks, The Private Life of Henry VIII, The Rules of the Game directed by Jean Renoir, Sanders of the River, Song of Freedom, The Spy in Black, Things to Come, The Third Man starring Orson Welles, Thursday’s Child, Dark Journey starring Vivien Leigh, The Divorce of Lady X starring Laurence Olivier, Fire Over England starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Storm in a Teacup starring Rex Harrison and Vivien Leigh, Ikiru directed by Akira Kurosawa, and several Alfred Hitchcock thrillers including Blackmail, The Manxman, Murder, Number Seventeen, Rich and Strange, and The Skin Game.
Stifled uses
John McDonough:
Hi, I’m John McDonough, founder of Timeless Video Alternatives International. For over 20 years, I’ve preserved and distributed old movies and television shows that are in the public domain. Copyright restoration has severely harmed my business. Before § 514 went into effect, I had a selection of foreign works that were in the public domain. I offered these movies for sale at reasonable prices to the public specifically because they were in the public domain. But now I can no longer. My business is hurt, and so too is the viewing public.
Paul Adair:
I've considered an oldies and classics theatre
using video projection and public domain movies
to include cartoons, serials, etc.
It'd be smallish 100 - 150 seats or so. Minimal
concession, mostly vending machines. Then about
a third of the product "vanished", cheating the
public and myself. Let me recommend Lawrence
Lessig's book "FREE CULTURE--" and if you can
find it, James B. Twitchell's "CARNIVAL CULTURE-
the trashing of taste in America".