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

The IPKat

The report goes that Grau's inspiration for the movie came from hearing stories about vampires from local farmers in Serbia, this while he was serving in the German army in 1916. It is here that the story, as a copyright matter, become murky. The movie had entered cinema oblivion. And so it was that Nosferatu, directed by F.W.