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Originally Posted by EricJ
Or else they....DIDN'T. Just sayin'.
(Like, they'd have a 35mm non-private-collector print source if they did?)
Someone on another thread suggested this may have been a bit of private cyber-squatting, with the mom-and-pop conversion company thinking that Uni would surely rush into a "Hitchcock's memo!" conversion right away after the film-historian hoo-hah for Dial M, and our little quick-thinking garage entrepreneurs planning to sell their conversion BACK to Universal for a hefty legal settlement...
Which is not entirely out of the realm of motive theory. Except that Uni wasn't planning to do one, of course.
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Copyright still applies in such cases. The fun only begins when the original copyright is no longer in effect. For example many of the older flicks they never bothered to renew the copyright. This being one of those that Hitchcock kept the rights to we know that Universal eventually had to negotiate to even release a copy with Patricia Hitchcock before it could be released. The copyright is intact.