10 Final End Credit Movie Mistakes You Never Noticed
5. Forgetting To Include A Copyright Indicator - Night Of The Living Dead
End credits mistakes don't get much more damaging than the now-legendary screw-up in George A. Romero's 1968 genre-making zombie film Night of the Living Dead.
The film's original American distributor, Walter Reade Organisation, made the spectacularly bone-headed oversight of failing to include a copyright declaration in the movie's end credits.
Though Romero's production company Image Ten did include copyright notices on the opening and closing credits when it was originally called Night of the Flesh Eaters, these were accidentally removed by Walter Reade Organisation during retitling.
As a result, the film is in the public domain for all to use, hence why it's received so many home video releases over the years, as well as countless unofficial spin-offs, remakes, and sequels, and appears as footage in so many other movies, being free and all.
American copyright law has since been updated such that a notice of copyright need not be given to the public, but the original ruling still stands, costing Romero millions of dollars in revenue as a result of a simple mistake.