Comments on: Gulliver’s Travels Free and Legal on BitTorrent http://torrentfreak.com/gullivers-travels-free-and-legal-on-bittorrent/ Torrent News, Torrent Sites and the latest Scoops Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:41:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: spot http://torrentfreak.com/gullivers-travels-free-and-legal-on-bittorrent/#comment-233073 spot Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:05:17 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/gullivers-travels-free-and-legal-on-bittorrent/#comment-233073 thanks for sharing it. thanks for sharing it.

]]> By: Ernesto http://torrentfreak.com/gullivers-travels-free-and-legal-on-bittorrent/#comment-27404 Ernesto Sun, 03 Dec 2006 11:46:26 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/gullivers-travels-free-and-legal-on-bittorrent/#comment-27404 [quote comment="27403"] It's not exactly true that all copies of Gulliver's Travels are non-copyrighted. [/quote] True, only the cartoon produced by Fleischer Studios Inc has. [quote comment="27403"]
It’s not exactly true that all copies of Gulliver’s Travels are non-copyrighted. [/quote]

True, only the cartoon produced by Fleischer Studios Inc has.

]]> By: tm http://torrentfreak.com/gullivers-travels-free-and-legal-on-bittorrent/#comment-27403 tm Sun, 03 Dec 2006 11:42:56 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/gullivers-travels-free-and-legal-on-bittorrent/#comment-27403 Gulliver's Travels was one of the top grossing films in 1939, a year many consider the best ever for movie releases. It's looking increasingly unlikely that Walt Disney's Snow White, released two years earlier, will ever enter into the public domain, considering that Disney was the major player in lobbying for - and receiving - copyright extensions to keep it's still-marketable film classics out of the public domain. It's not exactly true that all copies of Gulliver's Travels are non-copyrighted. There was a restored version made in the late 1980s or early 1990s and sold on VHS - and this "derivative art" would be considered copyrighted. However, the version posted on the Internet Archive, and commonly sold as $1 DVDs, is the unrestored version with the badly deteriorated colors, and is unquestionably public domain. As a film highlighting the idiocy of conflict between societies, Gulliver's Travels could be considered an antiwar movie. It was released at a time when there was strong isolationist sentiment in the US, as the antiwar movement was trying to keep the US out of the looming war in Europe. Gulliver’s Travels was one of the top grossing films in 1939, a year many consider the best ever for movie releases. It’s looking increasingly unlikely that Walt Disney’s Snow White, released two years earlier, will ever enter into the public domain, considering that Disney was the major player in lobbying for – and receiving – copyright extensions to keep it’s still-marketable film classics out of the public domain.

It’s not exactly true that all copies of Gulliver’s Travels are non-copyrighted. There was a restored version made in the late 1980s or early 1990s and sold on VHS – and this “derivative art” would be considered copyrighted.

However, the version posted on the Internet Archive, and commonly sold as $1 DVDs, is the unrestored version with the badly deteriorated colors, and is unquestionably public domain.

As a film highlighting the idiocy of conflict between societies, Gulliver’s Travels could be considered an antiwar movie. It was released at a time when there was strong isolationist sentiment in the US, as the antiwar movement was trying to keep the US out of the looming war in Europe.

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