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		abirch 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Happy Public Domain Day 2026 It's a Wonderful Life the movie is in the public domain: https://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2017/12/its-a-wonderful-life... the book which it was based on isn't nor its soundtrack as you mention. IANAL but could someone produce a public domain version of this movie with a public domain soundtrack?

zozbot234 8 days ago [–]

The copyright status of the original book makes that problematic. You'd have to somehow alter the recorded movie so that it doesn't reflect the creative content of the book anymore, which doesn't make much sense.

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