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When a vampire not called Dracula bested the copyright system, and what it tells us about derivative works

The IPKat

It was one thing to get excited about the possibility of making a vampire movie; it was another when the focus was taking the best of the German expressionistic cinema tradition, then in vogue, to do a movie version of Dracula. The movie had entered cinema oblivion.