Glenn,
The NSS no longer exists and since the only posters that were identified
as "belonging" to anyone were those printed by the NSS (which plainly
stated in the bottom margin that the poster must be returned to the
NSS), I would say there is no longer any recourse for any company to
claim they "own" individual examples of old movies posters and reclaim
them. The studios still own the *copyright* on the poster image and so
can theoretically prevent anyone from a picture of the poster
commercially without permission, but they don't own the physical copies
of the posters. As for posters printed since the demise of the NSS, most
of those are sold at retail by the studios through various sites like
www.moviegoods.com, so the studios have no claim to the individual
copies of those posters either.
But even when the NSS was around, I can't recall a single instance of
them gong to a collector and demanding that they turn over their
"illegally owned" NSS movie posters.
-- JR
Glenn Taranto wrote:
Oh, yes, by far and away.
Has there been any examples, yet, of studios coming in
and confiscating old posters from auctions or private collectors?
These film collectors understand, if it's known they have a rare
print there's a possibility, as Todd pointed out, their collection can
be confiscated. Mostly because these prints were obtained illegally.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Bruce Hershenson <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:* Glenn Taranto <mailto:[email protected]>
*Cc:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Tuesday, April 27, 2010 10:39 AM
*Subject:* Re: [MOPO] TCM Festival
As opposed to rare movie poster collectors?
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Glenn Taranto <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Those rare films collectors can be a bit squirrely.
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