First, anything 95 years old is in the public domain. On Jan. 1st every year, works created 95 years ago enter the public domain. As I write this in 2025, everything published ANYTIME during 1929 is in the PD.

Second, I like to read articles on https://publicdomainreview.org/.

One thing you can try is to upload the movie to YouTube. But I’ve found that their detector is too sensitive, it’ll flag something undoubtedly in the PD as being under copyright.

Both movies suffer from making societal statements, Crash about race and Brokeback Mountain about acceptance of homosexuality.

Both movies were nominated so we could pat ourselves on the back. Neither movie was particularly good.

Confirming I too am having trouble with logging on to lemmy.ml in Mlem.