Editing Patterson–Gimlin film (section)

==Legal status==
Greg Long reports that a 1978 legal "settlement gave Dahinden controlling rights—51 percent of the film footage, 51 percent of video cassette rights, and 100 percent of all 952 frames of the footage. Patty Patterson had 100 percent of all TV rights and 49 percent rights in the film footage. [[René Dahinden|Dahinden]] had ... bought out Gimlin, who himself had received nothing from Patterson; and Mason and Radford, promised part of the profits by Patterson, had nothing to show for their investment or efforts."<ref name="ReferenceA">Long, 327; for fuller detail, see 318–29</ref> The film is in the [[public domain in the United States]], as it was published without a [[copyright notice]]; between 1964 and 1977 all works in the United States required such a notice or they would enter the public domain.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kopel |first=Matthew |title=LibGuides: Copyright Services: Copyright Term and the Public Domain |url=https://guides.library.cornell.edu/copyright/publicdomain |access-date=2023-08-06 |website=guides.library.cornell.edu |language=en}}</ref>