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SYSTEM am 31.08.2006 13:16 schrieb:
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The problem with the 70 years after the dead of the author was caused by the American movie industry. When a work (like a movie) isn't produced by a single person the 50 years starts as soon as the work is released and the movie industry was starting to lose grip on continous money makers like Gone with the Wind, the Wizard of Oz and I't a Wonderful Life etc. and therefore the period was stretched to 70 years, but also for books to 70 years after the dead of the author which is quite silly. It's good that copyright protects authors and even their relatives for a couple of decades after their dead, but 70 years, that is another live-span. Let them get a life and learn a trade...
As far as movies are concerned (and books likewise) as far as I understand only the original edition gets free from copyright, but when a movie for example is digitally cleaned up that cleaned-up version gets a new protection for 70 years. The same goes for example for new translations of books. And that is how it should be.
I grew up in the 60's and 70's and still remember how poor the quality of movies in theaters and also on TV often were, with scratches, dust and missing pictures and sometimes a frame would get stuck and soon after burn out from the heat of the projection lamp. The operator would then take both ends of the film out of the projector and he had to cut out a couple of frames and glue the ends together and put it in the projector again. This usually took a couple of minutes. It also happened on TV because magnetic storage (Ampex tapes) was way too expensive and low quality compared to 35 mm film and a live scanning and conversion to TV-signals.
When they nowadays try to emulate old movie problems like scrathes or dust I immediately recognize them as fake. BTW. the same goes for TV-set problems.
BTW. this is one of the gripes I have with Peter Molyneux's "The Movies". The early movies look old (in a very modern simulated way), but then the original movies were released they looked very crisp. Another problem with the game is that as soon as you start hiring people you are supposed to hire a lot of negroes. I have nothing against negroes, but in the start of the movie business there were hardly any negroes involved. I hate this political correctness instead of historical correctness. Negroes only started to play serious roles in the seventees with Shaft and Cleopatra Jones (which was a blackploitation movie by the way). I'm personally a big fan of Will Smith and bought many of his movies: MIB 1+2, I Robot, Hitch.
"The difference is: I can make this suit look good..."
(And I bought Wild, wild west...)
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