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>Not only can you legally download it, you can burn it to disk and sell copies if you wanted to.

What about a derivative work? Like if somebody recreated the film Metropolis into a 3D version, scene by scene. Ultimately the same film but using Blender or whatever so every scene is perfect as a 3D movie. Is that new film copyrighted to the person who did this work now?



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