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A simple copy of remaster won’t cut it in the US, but if you did some restoration work then that might be enough. This would only work as a land grab if you own
by aardvark179 5y ago
A simple copy of remaster won’t cut it in the US, but if you did some restoration work then that might be enough. This would only work as a land grab if you owned the only extant copies of the original, otherwise people could just make copies of those.
There were a bunch of court cases about this, music radio, and rights payments.
- SpelingBeeChamp 5y agoAs far as I know, restoration is insufficient to claim a derivative copyright in a public domain work because it lacks sufficient originality. To the extent you do a good job, your additions to the underlying public domain work are not your creative authorship. They are a restoration of the original author's authorship. I believe that is why Peter Kuran (Trinity and Beyond) patented a photochemical restoration process for revitalizing the color in films. Because his other restoration work is not protectable.