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Ad200120 — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:21:53 GMT

Hi I've just purchases frankenstien the 1931 version it did say the movie was free can anyone help me is this movie free

Re: Sky store

mike+simmonds — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:32:23 GMT

Where did you see it was free @Ad200120 ?

I believe there are conversations going on regarding some movies of this age being Royalty Free (ie - expiry of copyright) but that's quite a different thing to streaming companies charging customers for buying it from them.

When I look on my Skystore online - I see it at £5.99

This is a link for contacting the Skystore team if you want to talk to them direct.

https://www.skystore.com/n/hcus/help/contact-us

Re: Sky store

TimmyBGood — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 16:23:07 GMT

@Ad200120

On the contrary...

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2011/10/24/how-universal-re-copyrighted-frankensteins-monster/

Re: Sky store

TimmyBGood — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 16:32:46 GMT

@mike+simmonds wrote:

I believe there are conversations going on regarding some movies of this age being Royalty Free (ie - expiry of copyright) but that's quite a different thing to streaming companies charging customers for buying it from them.

Wikipedia has a list of 'notable' films which either didn't establish or failed to renew copyright:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States

The most famous is probably the original Night of the Living Dead where the cinema distribution didn't have a copyright notice on the celluloid prints.

Re: Sky store

caesarome — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:06:32 GMT

@Ad200120

If you have purchased the film

that you should have been sent an email acknowledgment and it will show you what the cost was so have you looked for this ?

Re: Sky store

mike+simmonds — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:43:57 GMT

@TimmyBGood wrote:
@Ad200120

On the contrary...

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2011/10/24/how-universal-re-copyrighted-frankensteins-monster/

Well well 🙂