Even open source movies? LOL

I really must stop downloading freeware games, then - wouldn't want to get into trouble...

So, if i make a short movie or a game and i put it on the web for free... I'm forcing someone (who dowload it with my permission) to commit an illegal act?

This sounds a bit strange... :blink:

Not true! A mentor of film classes I've made 4 movies thus far (they aren't hits, they were never even released nationwide - just within the local comunity), but I'm the single copyright holder of the copyrights for those movies. So if I put them on a server somplace for download - you can all download as much as you want, without having to pay and it's perfetly legal :bleh:

Is that the case with archive.org? Cause I could have sworn some of those movies are still for sale. Well, at least night of the living dead. Not that I'm complaining, but I do wonder.

Well I know many of those movies are for sale (bought quite a few of them and payed quite a fair amount of money - see previous posts), but I guess they are allowed. They even have stuff out of the American Cngresional library, so I'm quite sure they couldn't get that without the government support.
I'd like ot point out thoug, that some of this stuff is so old it actually fell out of the copyright protection law (95 years). This would mean the movies older then 1910 are not copyright protected anymore (didn't check the dates for all of them, but I've seen some that I'm certain were made before 1920 (puting them just aroud that 95y/o mark).

What rubbish. Have you checked the site and read the Legal announcement? Have you ever heard of Open Source, Creative Commons and other licenses. Archive.org offers no illegal material (at least to its best knowledge).

Yes Quintopotere u can...It's strange but true(the new world downloading law

Copyright on movies lasts for 25 years after the death of the copyright holder, I learn that stuff in school...

its no probs.....its 1/1000000000000000000000 that the police get u:D