Protected
La Planète sauvage (Fantastic Planet)
1973 · Les Films Armorial · Dir. René Laloux
On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.
Confidence
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Why this status applies
Fantastic Planet (La Planète sauvage) is a foreign production (French-Czechoslovak) released in 1973. In the United States, foreign works from 1964–1977 are protected if they were either registered for copyright in the US or if they qualify for restoration under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) in 1996.
This film is currently protected under the URAA (17 USC § 104A) because it was still under copyright protection in its source countries (France and the Czech Republic) on the restoration date of January 1, 1996. Furthermore, the film was registered with the US Copyright Office by Janus Films (registration number PA0000008581) following its US theatrical release by New World Pictures. It remains under active commercial exploitation by Janus Films and The Criterion Collection, who maintain the distribution rights.
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