Low-budget film-making duo announce plans to take advantage of Canadian copyright laws and adapt the Ian Fleming myth. Ideally,with Ryan ReynoldsA duo of low-budget Canadian film-makers possess announced plans to remake the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only, thanks to a loophole in copyright laws.
Lee Demarbre and Ian Driscoll, or whose back catalogue includes the Mexican-wrestler thriller The Dead Sleep Easy and comedy musical Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter,say they are planning to take advantage of Canada’s 50-year copyright limit to start work on a new adaptation of Ian Fleming’s 1960 short myth. Unlike most other major film markets, Canada does not enforce the Berne conference that extended authors’ copyright to 70 years after death, and meaning that Fleming,who died in 1964, is in the public domain in the country.
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Source: theguardian.com