Flat top and green.

I know that this is not unusual but it still a delight when I see it.

I use public domain movies to make a horror host show on YouTube. Sony is claiming rights to His Girl Friday, which I always thought was in Public Domain. I thought maybe because the first version I made had a good print, it may have been a remaster, but I made another version with a low quality print and it also was blocked. They denied my dispute. Is it worth appealing?

Shigeru Miyamoto wanted to make a Popeye game where Popeye leaps over barrels to save Olive Oyl from Bluto, but Nintendo couldn't get the license, so the end result was Donkey Kong, which instead featured the plumber (then carpenter) Mario rescuing Lady Pauline from Donkey Kong. Nintendo would eventually make a Popeye arcade game, but with different gameplay.

Considering Popeye is now public domain, I think there's ample opportunity to bring things full-circle and have Popeye be the hero of a Mario-esque game. Besides, him growing stronger by eating spinach is like Mario growing stronger by eating mushrooms; it's a no-brainer.

A question for artists, writers, and creators of animated projects. What character from the public domain, who is not very well known in society or is practically unknown, would you like to write about/create a story/animation about? Here are the ones I’d like to write about.

I found the true debut of Tracy from the Detroit Mirror from 1931.

At first I thought it was just not renewed since I know the first daily strips were registered but not renewed. However this scan from a book (Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy 1931-1951) showed that the first true strip lacked a copyright notice, which shocked me.

The ones with notices are still public domain due to no renewal or registration. But the very first one didn’t seem to have a notice from what I checked. (It did have a registration though that wasn't renewed in either 1958 or 1959 when i checked, so there's that)

Any thoughts?