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Originally Posted by etienne66
What great movies haven't been filmed because someone could not determine the copyright holder or the copyright holder just didn't like the idea?
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Not quite an exact example, but Florence Balcombe (or was it Bascombe?), widow of Bram Stoker, tried to get all the prints of Fritz Lang's German Expressionist film classic
Nosferatu destroyed, alleging copyright infringement when she sued*.
* This, from the useful bonus material in the B&N Classics edition of
Dracula.