Re: Zapruder film copyright

On 11/25/98, Paul Heald <heald[_at_]jd.lawsch.uga.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Alan Kabat <alankabat[_at_]aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > To those who have been following the saga of the copyright in the
> > Zapruder film of the J.F. Kennedy assassination, a story in today's
> > Washington Post (Nov. 24, 1998, at A17) may be of interest:
> >
> > The "Assassination Archives and Research Center" and a filmmaker
> > (Passage Productions of Baltimore) have sued DOJ, the National Archives,
> > and agents for the Zapruders, in the District Court for the District
> > of Columbia. The plaintiffs contend that DOJ should not be spending
> > taxpayers' monies to purchase the film while allowing the Zapruders to
> > retain copyright. The plaintiffs also contend that the Zapruders
> > abandoned the copyright, and that their fees are excessive.
>
> I'm totally confused by this message. I have an article in
> front of me from 5 Public Domain Report (vol. 2) page 1, which states
> that the Zapruder film entered the public domain on August 1, 1998
> after the U.S. excersized its emminent domain rights over the film
> and offered to pay the Zapruder estate the "just compensation"
> required under the Fifth Amendment.
>
> What have I missed?

There is a periodical called the "Public Domain Report"? Where can one get a subscription to this publication? And are they now planning to shut down for the next 20 years?

Tyler T. Ochoa
Associate Professor
Whittier Law School
<tochoa[_at_]law.whittier.edu> Received on Fri Nov 27 1998 - 20:30:27 GMT