Missing films?

Ya, but think of all the extra space we have now! :cool:
 
Aristotle, Plato, Homer etc. Most of their work lost (though the influences remain).
Far more than 99% of all species to ever have existed are extinct. The moments of my life almost wholly unrecorded. I've got some good memories and learned a few lessons. I don't need to know what I ate for breakfast 12 years ago today or how I liked it.
 
While I understand what you're saying there, and I agree... What I think is most galling about this instance is that copyright is set up such as to not allow preservation of these films by interested 3rd parties. There ARE people who have the ability and desire to save old films. Yet the films are STILL under copyright, and no one is allowed to preserve them. They are simply left to rot in vaults, instead. We need some REAL copyright reform. Of course, with Disney buying the world, the problem is only likely to get worse.
 
@Fluffy,

If humans only did what they NEED to do, they'd all be dead. Survival requires you to exceed your needs.
 
ilwrath said:
What I think is most galling about this instance is that copyright is set up such as to not allow preservation of these films by interested 3rd parties.
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Copyright is another thing entirely. In theory having the films under copyright gives the owner a financial incentive to preserve the films and try to market them. On the other hand, when everything is owned by massive entertainment conglomerates there is very little motivation to expend any effort on things that won't bring big profits.
As to length of copyright - so long as they don't extend it again then 1929 movies should be going public domain in the next few years. Movies prior to 1920 are public domain already. Movies made prior to 1962 only had 55 year protection that was then extended retroactively.
 
As to length of copyright - so long as they don't extend it again then 1929 movies should be going public domain in the next few years.
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Not as I understand the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998. According to WikiPedia:
This law, also known as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, Sonny Bono Act, or as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act,[2] effectively "froze" the advancement date of the public domain in the United States for works covered by the older fixed term copyright rules. Under this Act, additional works made in 1923 or afterwards that were still protected by copyright in 1998 will not enter the public domain until 2019 or afterward (depending on the date of the product) unless the owner of the copyright releases them into the public domain prior to that.
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So, nothing new released until after 2019. And, 90% of that stuff is already gone, anyhow. Which I think was my point...
 
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