Night of the Living Dead is public domain?!

Hawk Teflon

Hawk Teflon

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Apparently NotLD is public domain. I had no idea (I'm probably the only one). That's crazy to even think about.

Check out number 5 on this list:

http://www.cracked.com/article/207_6-inventors-who-got-jack-****-changing-modern-world/

I can't believe that! I would be SO mad. What an idiotic blunder!
 
Yep, it's been public domain for a while, which is the main reason Romero remade it, and made so many sequels. I don't think he's hurting.
 
Yeah, you're the only one. A lot of people get to do stuff with it thanks to that.

Its wide availability may have even helped Romero succeed to some extent in the long run. It wasn't considered as great at the time as it is now from what I understand. In part this seems to be because people were really getting into the space program and wanted to be optimistic about our technology. And, as with above, it may have encouraged him to make the first sequel, which was much more successful. From what I recall from reading about this, there's no research in my post.
 
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