35 Movies That Made Public Domain Characters Cool Again
by Joel Cunningham from Lifehacker on (#5HTZB)
United States copyright law is a real beast. There was a time, not so long ago, when any creative work would fall into the public domain-meaning the original rights to the work had lapsed, allowing anyone to make use of the characters and ideas within it-after 42 years. Then, in the 1970s, the Walt Disney company...