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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Back in March 2008, Aaron was giving us an interesting
account of Toho asserting individual author's rights in an attempt to extend
copyright on the films of Kurosawa Akira, against the weight of the 1971
copyright laws ['<FONT size=2>'Kurosawa films and copyright
suit']</FONT>.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I'd be interested in any update on that, as well as
whether anyone had an opinion as to whether Toho's assertion, is legally
compatible with Shochiku's of renewed copyright on Ozu silent films as from the
80s, on their english-subtitled prints, which do not mention the name of any
translator, subtitler or any other author of the new work.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Happy New Year,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Roger</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>