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The 1954 Liz Taylor movie, "The Last Time I Saw Paris" entered the public domain 10 years early because the copyright notice had an error [1]
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Date: 2023-03-14 22:57:58+00:00
That’s interesting. The studio must not have realized the error until years after it entered the public domain, because, prior to 1976, copyright terms were 28 years and could be renewed for a 2nd term of 28 years. So, had they noticed the error before it entered the public domain, they could have renewed it, and then when copyright terms were expanded in 1976 and again with the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act, the movie would still be under copyright. That was an expensive Roman numeral error.
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