{"id":446,"date":"2002-12-22T21:06:34","date_gmt":"2002-12-23T02:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=446"},"modified":"2006-02-04T10:06:25","modified_gmt":"2006-02-04T15:06:25","slug":"derivative-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2002\/12\/22\/derivative-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Derivative Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Republic Pictures owned the original story upon which &#8220;It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life&#8221; is based, plus much of the music in the movie.  It&#8217;s on that basis that in 1993 they began to excercise copyright control over the movie which had for twenty years been considered by all to be in the public domain.<\/p>\n<p>It still says a lot that the movie only got its wings when freely distributed, and is now much less available.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some relevant links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reelclassics.com\/Movies\/Wonlife\/wonlife-article2.htm\">http:\/\/www.reelclassics.com\/Movies\/Wonlife\/wonlife-article2.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.dhwritings.com\/c02.html\">http:\/\/articles.dhwritings.com\/c02.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/ebert\/greatmovies\/wonderful_life.html\">http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/ebert\/greatmovies\/wonderful_life.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.film-center.com\/canishow.html\">http:\/\/www.film-center.com\/canishow.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Republic Pictures owned the original story upon which &#8220;It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life&#8221; is based, plus much of the music in the movie. It&#8217;s on that basis that in 1993 they began to excercise copyright control over the movie which had for twenty years been considered by all to be in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}