Is a movie from 1955 completely copyright free?
<p>I'm wondering if a movie of 1955 is completely copyright free and so if I'm allowed to write and add English subtitles, and distribute it (per download or stream).</p>

<p>It's a Dutch movie and I want it to be accessible with English subtitles for everyone to download and see it. To share about Dutch history and culture in The Netherlands.</p>

<p>In The Netherlands, <a href="https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/kamerstukken/2006/06/22/copyright-act" rel="nofollow">copyright law</a> protects a work, per <a href="http://Copyright%20shall%20expire%2070%20years%20after%201%20January%20of%20the%20year%20following%20the%20year%20of%20the%20death%20of%20the%20author" rel="nofollow">Article 37(1)</a>, for 70 years after the death of The Creator. Belgian law apparently <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_lengths" rel="nofollow">the same</a>, with a complication (<a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=125254" rel="nofollow">Article 39</a>) that performer rights expire 50 years after fixation.</p>

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