Public Domain from Outer Space

Black_by_Pubic_Deman writes "It is a work of art that truly represents the nadir of film making; a movie so bad that it's good. It has been labelled 'The Worst Movie Ever' by the Golden Turkey Awards and is also the winner of two notable Razzies. Ed Wood's classic and every Slashdot reader's favorite movie Plan 9 from Outer Space is now in the Public Domain and available as a free download thanks to the fine folks over at Archive.org."

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Glen or Glenda

[portforward]

It was on TV late at night about 15 years ago when I was still a teen. I was wondering what that was until I saw the movie with Depp.

Still, I don't know if Plan 9 is truly the worst movie ever. I have to agree with the MST3K crew that there are several others even worse, like Manos.

Re:Oops

[typical]

What I'd like to know is why archive.org, king of bulk data transfer, doesn't automatically provide bittorrents of all of their larger files. It would have to save them some stupidly large amount of money in bandwidth costs.

"It's a Wonderful Life"

[schon]

Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life. This was on everywhere in the holiday season until then, but since is exclusively on NBC. Capra chose not to renew the copyright on that film, so it was his wish that it be public domain.

As I heard it, the film is still public domain, but the music in it was still under copyright; NBC bought the rights to the music, and is therefore able to control copyright of the film.

Theoretically, anyone could play it if they replaced the music (or cut the scenes which contain copyrighted music.)

But you're right - we are all being robbed.

Re:Oops

[bani]

What about the new trackerless torrent protocol though? They wouldnt need to run any tracker at all.

Re:This is probably the worst movie ever made!

[chickenrob]

Oh sure... the last Napoleon reference I made got a -1 Offtopic... Flippin Idiots!

Re:Ed Wood redefines "genius"

[linzeal]

Um, Ed Wood would of made an awesome filmaker nowadays where he could show off his personality more. The repression of the first half of the 20th century in America is inconceivable to someone who did not live it but it drove many artists to commit themselves to projects and ideas that were not wholly there vision to make it through the censors.