Hasta La Ideas

A quick look at George Romero’s feature debut and the copyright issues that shaped the zombie genre.Under the Copyright Act of 1909 the first public display of your work without the symbol word or abbreviation of copyright and the year of publication meant that you lost your copyright forever and the work becomes part of the public domain. …Had Romero’s copyright mistake had been caught before distribution, He would have not only retained the rights to this film but also have exclusive rights to the idea of the zombie as we know it today. The concept of a slow-moving flesh-eating ambulatory corpse would have been protected as his intellectual property…(Read…)