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Legal to share more than 3000 movies listed on IMDB?
18th November 2017
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A month ago, I blogged about my work to automatically check the -copyright status of IMDB entries, and try to count the number of -movies listed in IMDB that is legal to distribute on the Internet. I -have continued to look for good data sources, and identified a few -more. The code used to extract information from various data sources -is available in +

A month ago, I blogged about my work to +automatically +check the copyright status of IMDB entries, and try to count the +number of movies listed in IMDB that is legal to distribute on the +Internet. I have continued to look for good data sources, and +identified a few more. The code used to extract information from +various data sources is available in a git repository, currently available from github.

@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ graph are located. I wonder why they are placed there. I suspect World Word II caused the dip around 1940, but what caused the peak around 2010?

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I've so far identified ten sources for IMDB title IDs for movies in the public domain or with a free license. This is the statistics @@ -70,10 +71,10 @@ are legal to distribute on the Internet is between 3186 and 4713.

It would be great for improving the accuracy of this measurement, if the various sources added IMDB title ID to their metadata. I have tried to reach the people behind the various sources to ask if they -are interested in doing this, without any positive replies so far. -Perhaps you can help me get in touch with the people behind VODO, -Public Domain Torrents, Public Domain Movies and Public Domain Review -to try to convince them to add more metadata to their movie entries?

+are interested in doing this, without any replies so far. Perhaps you +can help me get in touch with the people behind VODO, Public Domain +Torrents, Public Domain Movies and Public Domain Review to try to +convince them to add more metadata to their movie entries?

Another way you could help is by adding pages to Wikipedia about movies that are legal to distribute on the Internet. If such page