The League of Public Domain Properties
May 28, 2008 | Filed Under Public Domain | No Commentsa funny comic about the public domain, copyright and Disney. Although it is not really funny, more serious-like. Dead serious.
Want to download your favorite movie?? For free?? LEGALLY????
May 28, 2008 | Filed Under Public Domain, Public Domain Movies | No CommentsNow you can. Sort of. The Internet Archive has a site with many public domain movies. One notable download is “Charade” with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, which is “public domain due to the failure to put the then required copyright notice in the released print.” Go search their database and see what else they have!read more [...]
Nice Way to Watch “Battle of the Worlds”
May 27, 2008 | Filed Under Public Domain, Public Domain Movies | No CommentsBmovies.com is a nice little site which allows you to watch many public domain movies over the Net. You can watch Margheriti’s masterpiece here.
Vista’s volume shadow copy service saved my bacon
May 26, 2008 | Filed Under Public Domain, Public Domain Movies | No CommentsVista’s shadow copy feature-available in ALL versions of Vista-was one of those services that I’ve seen many people say should be disabled to save disk space and up performance. Well, I never bothered to turn it off and it has been running since upgrading my machine to Vista. Well, today it proved that it is, in fact, a worthy service that everyone should leave enabled. For some reason that is unknown to me, my Videos directory got corrupted. I tried everything and was unable to access the
Icons of Adventure (The Stranglers of Bombay / The Terror of the Tongs / The Pirates of Blood River / The Devil-Ship … (DVD Talk)
May 26, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments OffThis year’s Sam Katzman “Biggest Bang-for-the-Buck” Prize goes to Sony’s Mike Schlesinger, who once again has spearheaded a deliriously fun set of four features and offbeat extras, this one under the banner Icons of Adventure . The vague, inapt moniker aside, it’s an especially fun quadruple bill of Hammer movies, basically two swashbucklers and two period action-thrillers: The Pirates of Blood …
[The Mahabharata. of Krishna - Dwaipayana Vyasa]
May 25, 2008 | Filed Under Public Domain | No CommentsThe Mahabharata of Krishna - Dwaipayana Vyasa translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli[published between 1883 and 1896]. The Ganguli English translation of the Mahabharata is the only complete one in the public domain. website screenshots thumbnails, website thumbs, website free thumbs, free website thumbs screenshots
Google let video uploaders claim copyrights on public domain
May 24, 2008 | Filed Under Public Domain | No CommentsThree days ago, Google’s copyright bot flagged a video as infringing because 236.com (Arianna Huffington’s comedy news outfit) had posted a parody video using the footage with a content identification sig on it.
Addicted to the Public Domain!
May 24, 2008 | Filed Under Public Domain, Public Domain Movies | No CommentsA little over a year ago I purchased my first IPOD. Soon thereafter, I discovered the wonderful world of podcasting. One podcast that I enjoy is the B-Movie Cast, hosted by Vince Rotolo. It was here that I first heard of “Public Domain Movies”. In short, public domain films, are films that are no longer owned or controlled by anyone, making them free and accessible for download by the public. A couple of sites that I have discovered are: www.archive.org and http://www.publicdomaintorrents.com/.