drngr said:
Asaki said:
But then again, when they did Night of the Living Dead for Rifftrax Live, it looked an awful lot like the BluRay and not a public domain print...
What do you mean? It being public domain means it is legal to redistribute a Blu-ray so long as you don't break the decryption in doing so.
Not necessarily. A bluray release of a public domain product can be protected if the distributor did something original to it. For example, if the retail release had added scenes, a commentary track, new credits or title cards, and menu, all those new elements can be protected under U.S. law. A film colour-correction and cleanup may also be protected, if shown to be unique to the release.
With regards to Rifftrax, I think they are just taking a gamble that they will not get noticed by any power players.