PUBLIC HUMILIATION: Mike Roddick Has Two Small Problems
Author: john.taddeo@ptd.law
Now Mike Roddick has a TWO Small Problems…
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Michael "Mike" Roddick built Mike's Discount Video, Inc. into a surprisingly huge business selling public-domain movies at very small prices. Then one tiny cease-and-desist letter created one enormous problem: apparently some films can be public domain—without actually being "free." Now Mike has an even bigger idea. Trading cards. Shirts. Mugs. Posters. Merchandise built from It's a Wonderful Life, Night of the Living Dead, and the Superman Fleischer Cartoons. Unfortunately for Mike, every one of those films carries surviving rights somewhere above, below, or inside the work itself. Poor Mike. Now Mike Roddick has TWO small problems.
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