but I'll just suck it up and get right to the point:
Copyrights and trademarks can expire, lapse or be changed for a
number of reasons. I have found that in fact there are several Gumby
cartoons that are a part of the public domain. Here are a few:
http://tinyurl.com/p283s
On Apr 23, 2006, at 9:45 PM, David Howell wrote:
> Uhhh...Gumby isnt public domain. The little guy is far from that.
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> http://www.gumbyworld.com/copy.htm
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> It looks like Veoh and their promise to rid their site of copyrighted
> material was rather empty.
>
> David
> http://www.davidhowellstudios.com
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> --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, WWWhatsup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> I don't know if that's true that Gumby is public domain - it's 60's
> right?
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>> However if stuff is in the public domain, yes one is free to make
> any kind
>> of derivative work, and then even copyright that work.
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>> Hence the development of such animals as the GPL in order to ensure
>> that 'free' works can only be spawned into further 'free' works.
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>> joly
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>> At 03:24 PM 4/22/2006, you wrote:
>>> I noticed on Veoh, they have a complete Gumby video on the home
> page in the 'featured videos' section.
>>> <http://veoh.com>http://veoh.com/
>>>
>>> I assume the particular Gumby video
> <http://tinyurl.com/jruf7>http://tinyurl.com/jruf7 is public domain
> because Michael Eisner is featuring it, along with a couple of
> complete Superman videos that I have seen tagged as public domain on
> the Archive before.
>>>
>>> Since I am then allowed to use the public domain video of Gumby to
> create or recreate my own work, or version, wouldn't that mean that I
> may also freely refashion Gumby for a contemporary world? In
> otherwords, if I am able use the video myself to make my own video, I
> would make a new Gumby out of the old Gumby. I would use the music in
> the video, mash the likeness, reshape him a bit physically speaking,
> but would especially make his psyche much different; he would do and
> say different kinds of things and have different body behaviors, for
> instance. I might have some plans to add a couple of permeant
> deformations to his walk and give his a few classic behavioral
> problems, for instance. Gumby himself could change and evolve instead
> of be trapped in time, the way he is now. Perhaps I could give the new
> Gumby away for free and encourage others to take him and develop him.
> Gumby could be reborn into a global star!
>>>
>>> Would I be allowed to do all of the above with my public domain
> Gumby without getting into trouble with the Gumby trademark and other
> later, non-public domain Gumby stuff claimed to be owned entirely by a
> private entity?
>>> <http://tinyurl.com/mgu4q>http://tinyurl.com/mgu4q
>>>
>>> I would assume that somehow, I would not be able to reshape Gumby,
> even if I did it all with the materials that I got from the public
> domain Gumby video.
>>>
>>> Surely, there is a conflict here and I would assume there is a
> simple answer that has already been worked out legally. Does anyone
> know what that would be?
>>>
>>>
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