Alfred Hitchcock's very first film, The Pleasure Garden (1925), will enter the public domain in the United States tomorrow.

This is the first Hitchcock film to enter the public domain. Note that because Hitchcock died in 1980, it's still copyrighted in the UK and other jurisdictions that use Life+70 like the European Union. But because pre-1978 works are copyrighted for 95 years in the USA, it's free to use here on New Years' Day.

Practically, this means it's now legal to showcase the movie at a public theater without a studio's permission - assuming you can get your hands on a copy.

Submitted January 01, 2021 at 02:07AM by SacKingsRS https://ift.tt/3aZfL6u