Horrors Of Copyright

This Kaptain Kristian video on The Horrors of Copyright tells the tale of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and how one omission from the title screen lead to being available in the public domain immediately upon release. The fascinating part of this story is not that Romero got screwed but that this oversight actually led to a massive world of new creative endeavors and, basically, an entire industry built around the notion of "zombies."

I can't help but think of Everything is a Remix, the Kirby Ferguson doc about the infinite cycle of lifting ideas for new creations. Had Romero copyrighted his film, that cycle would have been stopped short with litigation.