<![CDATA[COS Is In The Public Domain, Right?]]>Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Carnival of Souls

guitarpick-79 — 17 years ago(November 14, 2008 10:42 PM)

My name is Matt, and I'm the writer, director and co-producer of a short zombie film entitled "UNDEAD, PART I: THE BEGINNING" (this will be the first of 3 films and is not connected in any way to the 2003 film "Undead") that some friends of mine and I will be filming in March. Aside from wanting to pay tribute to George Romero's films, I also want to pay tribute to all the other horror films that have inspired me to make this film, and one of those other films is "Carnival of Souls". In one shot of my film I need to have scenes from another film playing on a TV set, and I think that having "Carnival" playing on the TV would be the perfect tribute to the film, but I also need to make sure that the film I have playing on the TV set truly is considered to be in the public domain. I believe that "Carnival of Souls" is considered to be public domain material, but I just wanted to find out from others here at IMDB first that it, in fact, actually is. Thank you.

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Yes.
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Am watching it now on the PubDub channel on my Roku.

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Nope.

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Probably. I just bought a DVD set that contained 15 horror movies, COS and 14 others, for $5 at Walmart. I just took it that they were all public-domain and I was basically paying for the disc, labor, movie selection, etc.

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Hey michaeljcarey, how about not being a douche when someone is looking for help?
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Yes, "Carnival of Souls" is in public domain. But in response to michaeljcarey's comment, that copyright search can be a really useful tool. However, despite the claim that the online catalog includes full records, there's stuff that's copyrighted that's not listed, and records prior to 1978 aren't online at all. I'd hate for someone to get sued because they mistook information (or lack thereof) on the copyright site as gospel.

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Here guitarpick, go to this website the next time you have a question about what is, or is not, in the public domain:
http://copyright.gov
This way you don't have to come in here asking everytime. Now, you can do it all by yourself like a big boy!

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Thank you. I was pretty sure that it was, just wanted to make sure. Also, thank you for the link to that site, I'd never heard of it before. Thanks again!

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Yes, according to archive.org, it is public domain. Also, they are hosting it in case that's useful for you: http://www.archive.org/details/CarnivalOfSouls_ipod

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