Talk:The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

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How did a movie made in 1976 manage to enter the public domain? This should be explained in the article. Andrew Levine 20:57, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Quite often, movies and TV shows are placed in the Public Domain for various reasons. In the case of this movie, the producers did it voluntarily because it was no longer commercially viable (it no longer made them money). And by doing this, it prevented the bootleg copies of it from being sold by video pirates (after all, why buy something when you can get it for free somewhere else?) Mushrom 18:55, 30 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Did you make up the story about the producers voluntarily putting it in the public domain to combat pirates? Green Cardamom (talk) 17:37, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Boy in plastic bubble.jpg
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Impact (or Cultural References)
This movie has had a rather noticeable cultural impact on media and I just want to note that Family Guy's episode (season 4, ep 18 - The Father, The son, and the Holy Fonz) has a side plot focusing completely on the reference to this movie. If someone could add this to the page (I don't trust my editing skills).. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.144.2.188 (talk) 21:36, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Public domain status
Does anyone know why this film is in the public domain? Kaldari (talk) 23:38, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

The article claims the film is in the public domain, but provides no source, other than Internet Archive, which is not a reliable source (anyone can upload there with little oversight, similar to Wikicommons, but without the benefit of community control). I've removed mention of it being in the Public Domain since it is unsourced to a reliable source. Here is what it said:


 * The film entered the public domain and is available from the Internet Archive. Despite the public domain status, the "ancillary rights" (and original elements) of the film belong today to Columbia Pictures via sister company Sony Pictures Television.

-- Green Cardamom (talk) 17:42, 30 December 2011 (UTC)