Petter Reinholdtsen

Entries from August 2019.

Legal to share more than 16,000 movies listed on IMDB?
10th August 2019

The recent announcement of from the New York Public Library on its results in identifying books published in the USA that are now in the public domain, inspired me to update the scripts I use to track down movies that are in the public domain. This involved updating the script used to extract lists of movies believed to be in the public domain, to work with the latest version of the source web sites. In particular the new edition of the Retro Film Vault web site now seem to list all the films available from that distributor, bringing the films identified there to more than 12.000 movies, and I was able to connect 46% of these to IMDB titles.

The new total is 16307 IMDB IDs (aka films) in the public domain or creative commons licensed, and unknown status for 31460 movies (possibly duplicates of the 16307).

The complete data set is available from a public git repository, including the scripts used to create it.

Anyway, this is the summary of the 28 collected data sources so far:

 2361 entries (   50 unique) with and 22472 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-archive-org-search.json
 2363 entries (  146 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-archive-org-wikidata.json
  299 entries (   32 unique) with and    93 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-cinemovies.json
   88 entries (   52 unique) with and    36 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-creative-commons.json
 3190 entries ( 1532 unique) with and    13 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-fesfilm-xls.json
  620 entries (   24 unique) with and   283 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-fesfilm.json
 1080 entries (  165 unique) with and   651 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-filmchest-com.json
  830 entries (   13 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-icheckmovies-archive-mochard.json
   19 entries (   19 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-c-expired-gb.json
 7410 entries ( 7101 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-c-expired-us.json
 1205 entries (   41 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-pd.json
  163 entries (   22 unique) with and    88 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-infodigi-pd.json
  158 entries (  103 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-looney-tunes.json
  113 entries (    4 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-pd.json
  182 entries (   71 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-silent.json
  248 entries (   85 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-manual.json
  158 entries (    4 unique) with and    64 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-mubi.json
   85 entries (    1 unique) with and    23 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-openflix.json
  520 entries (   22 unique) with and   244 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-profilms-pd.json
  343 entries (   14 unique) with and    10 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainmovies-info.json
  701 entries (   16 unique) with and   560 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainmovies-net.json
   74 entries (   13 unique) with and    60 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainreview.json
  698 entries (   16 unique) with and   118 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomaintorrents.json
 5506 entries ( 2941 unique) with and  6585 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-retrofilmvault.json
   16 entries (    0 unique) with and     0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-thehillproductions.json
  110 entries (    2 unique) with and    29 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-two-movies-net.json
   73 entries (   20 unique) with and   131 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-vodo.json
16307 unique IMDB title IDs in total, 12509 only in one list, 31460 without IMDB title ID

New this time is a list of all the identified IMDB titles, with title, year and running time, provided in free-complete.json. this file also indiciate which source is used to conclude the video is free to distribute.

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