Image:Nightofthelivingdead screenshot.jpg

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Description

Night of the Living Dead screenshot -- a young zombie (Kyra Schon) and her victim (Karl Hardman).

Source

Night of the Living Dead

Date

The film was released in 1968

Author

Direction and cinematography both by George A. Romero

Permission
(Reusing this image)

Public domain


[edit] Licensing

Public domain This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1977 without a copyright notice. It is not in the public domain in the following countries that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works: Canada, China (not Hong Kong, Macao, or Taiwan Area), Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, and other countries with individual treaties. See this page for further explanation.


[edit] Public domain

The original 1968 film Night of the Living Dead is in the public domain in the United States because of the failure of the distributor to provide a copyright notice on the film, as was required by U.S. copyright law at the time.

See: United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Technology and the Law. Legal Issues that Arise when Color is Added to Films Originally Produced, Sold, and Distributed in Black and White (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1988). P. 83.

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current04:12, 19 August 2005400×273 (15 KB)Petrusbarbygere (Night of the Living Dead screenshot -- a young zombie (Kyra Schon) and her victim (Karl Hardman).. Source: Due to the filmmakers' neglect of the (former) requirement to put proper notice on copies of their work, this image & the film it's from are in the)
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