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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from January 2018</title>
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  10                 <title>Legal to share more than 11,000 movies listed on IMDB?</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Sun, 7 Jan 2018 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve continued to track down list of movies that are legal to
  15 distribute on the Internet, and identified more than 11,000 title IDs
  16 in The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) so far.  Most of them (57%) are
  17 feature films from USA published before 1923.  I&#39;ve also tracked down
  18 more than 24,000 movies I have not yet been able to map to IMDB title
  19 ID, so the real number could be a lot higher.  According to the front
  20 web page for &lt;a href=&quot;https://retrofilmvault.com/&quot;&gt;Retro Film
  21 Vault&lt;/A&gt;, there are 44,000 public domain films, so I guess there are
  22 still some left to identify.&lt;/p&gt;
  23
  24 &lt;p&gt;The complete data set is available from
  25 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/public-domain-free-imdb&quot;&gt;a
  26 public git repository&lt;/a&gt;, including the scripts used to create it.
  27 Most of the data is collected using web scraping, for example from the
  28 &quot;product catalog&quot; of companies selling copies of public domain movies,
  29 but any source I find believable is used.  I&#39;ve so far had to throw
  30 out three sources because I did not trust the public domain status of
  31 the movies listed.&lt;/p&gt;
  32
  33 &lt;p&gt;Anyway, this is the summary of the 28 collected data sources so
  34 far:&lt;/p&gt;
  35
  36 &lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
  37  2352 entries (   66 unique) with and 15983 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-archive-org-search.json
  38  2302 entries (  120 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-archive-org-wikidata.json
  39   195 entries (   63 unique) with and   200 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-cinemovies.json
  40    89 entries (   52 unique) with and    38 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-creative-commons.json
  41   344 entries (   28 unique) with and   655 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-fesfilm.json
  42   668 entries (  209 unique) with and  1064 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-filmchest-com.json
  43   830 entries (   21 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-icheckmovies-archive-mochard.json
  44    19 entries (   19 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-c-expired-gb.json
  45  6822 entries ( 6669 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-c-expired-us.json
  46   137 entries (    0 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-externlist.json
  47  1205 entries (   57 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-pd.json
  48    84 entries (   20 unique) with and   167 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-infodigi-pd.json
  49   158 entries (  135 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-looney-tunes.json
  50   113 entries (    4 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-pd.json
  51   182 entries (  100 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-silent.json
  52   229 entries (   87 unique) with and     1 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-manual.json
  53    44 entries (    2 unique) with and    64 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-openflix.json
  54   291 entries (   33 unique) with and   474 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-profilms-pd.json
  55   211 entries (    7 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainmovies-info.json
  56  1232 entries (   57 unique) with and  1875 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainmovies-net.json
  57    46 entries (   13 unique) with and    81 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainreview.json
  58   698 entries (   64 unique) with and   118 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomaintorrents.json
  59  1758 entries (  882 unique) with and  3786 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-retrofilmvault.json
  60    16 entries (    0 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-thehillproductions.json
  61    63 entries (   16 unique) with and   141 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-vodo.json
  62 11583 unique IMDB title IDs in total, 8724 only in one list, 24647 without IMDB title ID
  63 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  64
  65 &lt;p&gt; I keep finding more data sources.  I found the cinemovies source
  66 just a few days ago, and as you can see from the summary, it extended
  67 my list with 63 movies.  Check out the mklist-* scripts in the git
  68 repository if you are curious how the lists are created.  Many of the
  69 titles are extracted using searches on IMDB, where I look for the
  70 title and year, and accept search results with only one movie listed
  71 if the year matches.  This allow me to automatically use many lists of
  72 movies without IMDB title ID references at the cost of increasing the
  73 risk of wrongly identify a IMDB title ID as public domain.  So far my
  74 random manual checks have indicated that the method is solid, but I
  75 really wish all lists of public domain movies would include unique
  76 movie identifier like the IMDB title ID.  It would make the job of
  77 counting movies in the public domain a lot easier.&lt;/p&gt;
  78
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