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So this must mean the ban of this title only affected Wal-Mart stores... After all, that short was a Donald Duck short.
[[Special:Contributions/69.85.235.49|69.85.235.49]] 15:45, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
== Banned Tapes of "The Avengers" from Public Domain Home Video Distributors ==
In late-1992, The Avengers star Patrick Macnee and rights owner EMI Films filed a lawsuit against several public domain home video distributors, which he referred to as "The Pirates," over unauthorized home video releases of several The Avengers episodes and the audacity to claim that said episodes were in the public domain, even though they weren't. Among those were not only Burbank Video, but also Hollywood Select Video, Shokus Video, Video Images and Showcase Productions. As a result, the Burbank Video label was absorbed into Video Treasures for a couple of months, and a couple of older titles were re-issued with the Video Treasures logo on the product label, in place of Burbank Video. Macnee threatened to plank the companies in the ocean, and soon after, the companies had to pay heavy damages and the legal copyright was later re-established in mid-1993. The Burbank Video label was resurrected afterwards, with the launch of the new "Hollywood Favorites" line.
[[Special:Contributions/69.85.235.48|69.85.235.48]] 12:58, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
== The Beatles tapes from Media Home Entertainment ==
Did Media Home Entertainment even get permission to release these, or did they automatically assume that the Beatles were public domain? [[Special:Contributions/69.85.235.49|69.85.235.49]] 15:52, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
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