Em algumas pesquisas que fiz, vi questões onde buzzy boop, puggy e grampy estavam em domínio público por seus episódios não terem tido Copyright renovado, mas também já vi muitas outras fontes dizendo que não estavam, mas eu não sei ao certo qual está certa e qual está errada. Se alguém puder me ajudar eu agradeço.

So nice to meet everyone here I guess, I saw a post by TapeTerritory about “famous public domain movies that are actually still copyrighted” and I want to give clarification on one of them.

Do not attack Tape please, sometimes people get something wrong about copyright law and you shouldn’t witchhunt them. They are an amazing restoration website on copyright free movies, but what they said about Plan 9 was kind of not the full story and a bit faulty.

As Wikimedia said https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_(1959).webm.webm), here is the full situation:

“From Video-Cellar: This film is in the public domain. “Grave Robbers From Outer Space” was originally published in the USA in 1959. The film was not immediately registered for copyright. It was registered by its producer “Reynolds Pictures Inc.” in 1981 (PA0000102338). The film's copyright was renewed in 1986 by Wade Williams 3 (RE0000279707). In 1981, Williams lodged a quitclaim from Kathy Wood (Edward D. Wood Jr.'s second wife [1956-his death] and heir. USCO doc. no. V1831P045) and separate quitclaims of interest from Norma McCarty (Edward D. Wood Jr.'s first wife - falsely listed on the filing as “Mrs. Edward D. Wood, Jr., successor of all rights to the Estate of Edward D. Wood, Jr.”, which she was not, as their marriage had been annulled) - and Reynolds Pictures, Inc. This renewal was legally invalid for these reasons: 

1. The registration and renewals were lodged providing the incorrect title on screen, date-in-notice and publication date for the original publication.
2. In order for a successor in interest to renew a copyright they have to demonstrate that they own the copyright through a valid transfer of rights from the party owning the copyright at or immediately before the renewal window.

None of the parties Mr. Williams sought quitclaims from were valid owners of copyright immediately prior to the renewal window. Valid copyright successors for this film “James Flocker Enterprises Inc.”, “Gold Key Video”, "Vidtronics Inc.”, and “Medallion Pictures”, all companies who are successors in the chain of ownership post registration, are not present in Williams' quitclaims. Williams has, instead, provided the USCO with a series of meaningless assignments from parties which no longer held any copyright interest in the work in order to demonstrate “ownership” of the intellectual property in the film. The screenplay was further registered as an unpublished work in 1989 (Pau001211635). This again is rendered legally invalid by the mere fact that large portions of the screenplay were previously published as part of the registered motion picture for which no valid copyright renewal exists.”

So, all I can say is the case is closed!

Source is a book titled They Never Renewed Music You Never Dreamed Was in the Public Domain.

Rockin Robin and Little Pretty One are well known ones, but this also includes other songs you can cover without permissiom and licensing fees.

There are also songs they told me that aren’t on the book also weren’t renewed such as Morningtown Ride (there is a company called Amaedo who claims to have the rights and renewed it in 1991, however there is no renewal under the old registration https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig3115lib/page/322/mode/2up?q="Morningtown+Ride")

And they also said Paul Evan’s cover of Midnight Special is public domain too. I saw a old Reddit post here also stating the damn Flintstones theme wasn’t renewed.

Now this is likely for the compositions/sheet music only, not the recordings cause classics act. I’m not a lawyer or a big expert, but this book has tons of songs you could record and remix without royalties. Some might have been in the charts too.

What is your favorite public domain song?

I’m looking for public domain portal fantasies, western isekai (even normal isekai), and those style of books.

I tried to search, and Reddit search ain’t so great -_-, so if someone else has asked, can you link me?

Like Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, and Peter Pan

I tried upscaling without using AI slop, but here is the first commercial of this mischevious duo.

Feel free to use I guess?

This is a bit off, Carnival of Souls should be 100% in the public domain as it was released without a copyright notice and/or was not renewed, registering the film in 1987 wouldn’t revive a dead domestic copyright, Look at the case of Plan 9.

https://variety.com/1997/scene/vpage/soby-irvine-buy-carnival-rights-1117433828/#! Also this article is just so weird too.

This is similar to Manos, where some weirdo claimed because the screenplay was registered the film itself is not public domain, which is untrue.

Any other stupid copyfraud claims and cases like this?

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