away then. Rather than write back to me though, address whatever it is
you have to say to the owners of the Gumby copyright.
David
http://www.davidhowellstudios.com
--- In [email protected], andrew michael baron
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> David, I could add a pretty long rant about knee jerking responses
> 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.
> >
> > http://www.gumbyworld.com/copy.htm
> >
> > It looks like Veoh and their promise to rid their site of copyrighted
> > material was rather empty.
> >
> > David
> > http://www.davidhowellstudios.com
> >
> > --- In [email protected], WWWhatsup <joly@> wrote:
> >>
> >> I don't know if that's true that Gumby is public domain - it's 60's
> > right?
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> Hence the development of such animals as the GPL in order to ensure
> >> that 'free' works can only be spawned into further 'free' works.
> >>
> >> joly
> >>
> >> 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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