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by kpa » Sun Nov 18, 2007 2:21 pm
RKO no longer has any rights to King Kong. In 2005, the Merian Cooper biography Living Dangerously detailed how the rights to Kong are split up:
1) Turner/Warner Bros. owns the rights to the original film. Ted Turner got those rights when he bought the RKO film library in 1986. Turner's company merged with Time Warner in 1995.
2) Merian Cooper's estate sold Universal the theme park and certain merchandising rights to the character and the plot of KING KONG, which Cooper controlled.
3) The Cooper estate retained for itself publishing and some other limited merchandising rights.
4) The 1933 novelization has fallen into the public domain because the copyright was not renewed. This is the only aspect of KING KONG that is in the public domain. Anyone can publish the original novel but that's all they can do. In 2005, Cooper's estate published a new novelization of the King Kong story to establish a new official version.
1) Turner/Warner Bros. owns the rights to the original film. Ted Turner got those rights when he bought the RKO film library in 1986. Turner's company merged with Time Warner in 1995.
2) Merian Cooper's estate sold Universal the theme park and certain merchandising rights to the character and the plot of KING KONG, which Cooper controlled.
3) The Cooper estate retained for itself publishing and some other limited merchandising rights.
4) The 1933 novelization has fallen into the public domain because the copyright was not renewed. This is the only aspect of KING KONG that is in the public domain. Anyone can publish the original novel but that's all they can do. In 2005, Cooper's estate published a new novelization of the King Kong story to establish a new official version.
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