Talk:The Night the Animals Talked

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[edit] "With the demise of Gamma Films, the film has passed into the public domain."

This is very likely to be untrue. Corporate intellectual property doesn't usually become public domain because the copyright holder goes under. If this is the case here, great - but support is needed. Merenta 03:17, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Adding "likely" into the above quote, as the author has done, just adds a weasel word, and I have tagged the article as such. On a related note, it's really not likely at all; when corporations go under, their property doesn't just disappear - somebody still owns it. They have corporate successors or else their property (including copyrights) get sold. If that's not the case here, great - but we still need cites, not weasel words. Cheerio and happy editing. Merenta 19:43, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I reworded the section involving copyright and the public domain, as the previous editor (perhaps unintentionally) linked bootleg copies and public domain status in an incorrect way. The only real linkage between these things is that it's not really possible to have a bootleg copy of a public domain work - or if so, it's not in the usual sense that one means "bootleg". I changed the copyright text to read that the copyright status is uncertain, which seems to be the case. I'm standing by my assessment that this work is not in the public domain, but I have been unable to find sources to support my position. Cheerio and happy editing! Merenta (talk) 16:08, 5 December 2007 (UTC)