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Originally Posted by Robert Harris
That's a wonderful question.
If someone files for GATT and regains their copyright, should they lose it if they do not make any attempt to place people on notice?
RAH
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That's a very good and interesting point.
Synapse Films have gone after a couple PD labels for releasing stuff as PD when in fact Synapse owned them. They are a very small company but it seems like they actually care that there stuff is being ripped off.
If these Hitchcock right owners don't care then there's not much anyone can do. There are certain foreign companies that simply don't care and they don't want to go to the trouble of contracts regarding certain titles so they simply took their films and passed them around to bootleg traders. Some of the smaller studios have asked these producers for the rights but the producer refuse. The guy in question is a VERY rich man who doesn't care about the films so instead of releasing them officially, he took a short cut and passed them around to traders.