Talk:Blackmail (1929 film)

Fair use rationale for Image:Blackmail1.jpg
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public domain
I've removed the statement that the film is currently in the Public Domain, as the US Copyright Office lists the film as having it's US rights restored. Davepattern (talk) 22:08, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Copyright in U.K. was valid until 1999. When this bill was issued in 1997,copyright was valid, but in 2000, expired. Is this wrong?Mikomaid (talk) 03:52, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Doesn't the European Directive override the older UK law in any case? 81.158.0.164 (talk) 03:05, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * My understanding (and I'm not a lawyer!) is that EU harmonisation in the 1990s ammended the 1988 UK Act so that copyright for films became dependant upon when the last of the principal creators of the film died (e.g. director, writer, composer, etc). Prior to that, copyright was either 50 or 70 years after the film was originally released (I'd need to double check, but I think it was 50 years up to the 1988 Act, and then 70 years after that).  The EU harmonisation was implemented retroactively in the UK, so films that had become PD in the UK fell back under copyright.  The new UK copyright is for 70 years after the last principal creator died.  So, for Hitchcock films, that means at least 2050 (1980+70).  For Blackmail, the writer Charles Bennett died in 1995, so Blackmail should be under copyright until 2065 (1995+70).  For further information, see the British Film Institute web site. Davepattern (talk) 06:45, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Copyright status of other Hitchcock films not relevant
The statement "Like Hitchcock's other British films, all of which are copyrighted worldwide" is no longer true. The Lodger, a British Hitchcock film, is public domain in the United States. The copyright status of other Hitchcock films is also irrelevant to Blackmail. It also reads like legal copy from the copyright holders and is not very encyclopedic. 98.177.110.153 (talk) 10:29, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

ALFRED HITCHCOCK FAMILY HOME MOVIES 1929
2601:646:201:57F0:C452:D28F:99A4:46C1 (talk) 18:44, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJeLgQMnJLw
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtPx1yz3TIs