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So are Warner Archive podcasts officially over with Mr. Feltenstein leaving the company? Email announcing new releases today has a link to the podcasts but the last new one was December 8th.

Once a movie goes into public domain it is permanent. However as with "It's A Wonderful Life" there are ways to obtain the underlying rights to the story the film is based on, or the music in the film. While the film itself is in public domain, you still need permission of the copyright...

Paramount owns the negative through various mergers. They obtained the rights to the original short story the film was based on, which was still under copyright. The also obtained the rights to the music used in the film. Paramount then defended its copyright of the film and succeeded in...