Things That Are Very Cool

[jetpack_monkey]

So, to coincide with the DVD release of George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead, The Weinstein Company (under their Dimension Films imprint) released a 40th Anniversary edition of the original Night of the Living Dead on the 20th. Now, most NotLD discs are a dime a dozen, since the film is in the public domain (sort of). However, this one is official and Romero-approved.

It also contains a quote from Classic-Horror.com at the end of the back cover blurb.

How awesome is that?

Comments

[fireworkfiasco.livejournal.com]

That is too awesome, actually. Far too awesome. :D

[timjr.livejournal.com]

Holy crap.

That's freaking awesome.

[kittycat22.livejournal.com]

Isn't Jason Jones one of the correspondents on The Daily Show....?

And awesome! Yay you!

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Not the same, but I'd be amused if that's why they picked up that quote.

[ziabatsu.livejournal.com]

I'm curious about the "public domain (sort of)". I'd think it'd be covered under the same laws that keep Mickey Mouse under copy right. Did Romero or the Weinsteins basically go "We don't care?"

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

It used to be that your film had to display a copyright notice at the beginning or else you forfeited the copyright. When Romero's distributor changed his title from Night of the Anubis to Night of the Living Dead, they forgot to include that notice. As such, the film's copyright isn't so much in the public domain as nobody rightly owns it, so there's nobody who will sue.