> unfortunately, this meant the work automatically went into the public domain To clarify, only in the US (and a few others not following the Berne convention)

> unfortunately, this meant the work automatically went into the public domain To clarify, only in the US (and a few others not following the Berne convention). Night of the Living Dead is still in copyright for 95%-ish of the world (unlike some people insisting that "It's Public Domain worldwide." because sadly that doesn't how copyright works.) This is of course more complicated (rule of shorter term may be applied here but that's a can of worms), but generally US copyright regime was weird (and still kind of is since that other countries do have a separate moral and economic rights).