Actually the film lab (owned by Romero) forgot to put a copyright on the release prints. Not sure "placed into the public domain" is exactly accurate - more lik

Actually the film lab (owned by Romero) forgot to put a copyright on the release prints. Not sure "placed into the public domain" is exactly accurate - more like the file was not correctly copyrighted so it lapsed into the public domain". In any case they fixed that with later releases but that's why a lot of the versions you see on TV are so crappy looking.