Template:Did you know nominations/Night of the Living Dead
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Lightburst talk 17:20, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
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Night of the Living Dead
Night of the Living Dead (entire film)
- ... that Night of the Living Dead was mistakenly released into the public domain because the original distributor failed to replace the copyright notice when changing the film's name? Source: "
First, Night of the Living Dead was famously the source of a legal conflict resulted in the film entering the public domain when the distributor, the Walter Reade Organization, forgot to add a copyright notice after making changes to the title screen
(Boluk & Lenz, 2011, p. 5)."
Boluk, Stephanie; Lenz, Wylie (2011). "Introduction: Generation Z, the Age of Apocalypse". In Boluk, Stephanie; Lenz, Wylie (eds.). Generation Zombie: Essays on the Living Dead in Modern Culture. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-6140-0. Archived from the original on June 5, 2021. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
"Around the same time, the Image Ten crew absorbed an even greater shock: Their picture didn't have a legal copyright. "Our first finished 35-millimeter print bore the title Night of the Flesh Eaters, Russo explains, "but we had to change it when we got threatened by a lawyer whose clients had already made a picture by that name" [1964's The Flesh Eaters, which has since acquired its own small but loyal cult following]. Romero picks up the sad story. "When Walter Reade put the film out, they changed the title. They titled it Night of the Living Dead. They didn't include the copyright on the titles ...
(Kane, 2010, p. 93)"
Kane, Joe (2010). Night of the Living Dead: Behind the Scenes of the Most Terrifying Zombie Movie Ever. Citadel Press. ISBN 978-0-806-53331-5.- ALT1: ... that Night of the Living Dead was mistakenly released into the public domain? Source: Same as the first hook. This is just cut shorter.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/September 1983 Laws
- Comment: This is a nomination for the Halloween set. The image slot is the entire public domain film available from the commons. If not one of the hooks above, I think the hook should somehow address the film being in the public domain because having the entire film on the front page immediately raises that question.
Improved to Good Article status by Rjjiii (talk). Self-nominated at 16:00, 22 October 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Night of the Living Dead; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
