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CBS
title: Amos 'n' Andy text: television and Internet network in Houston, started airing the show weeknights on a regular, nationwide basis for the first time since CBS pulled the series from distribution in 1966. Although the characters of Amos and Andy themselves are in the public domain, as well as the show's trademarks, title, format, basic premise and all materials created prior to 1948 (Silverman vs CBS, 870 F.2d 40), the television series itself is protected by copyright. CBS bought out Gosden & Correll's ownership of the program and characters in 1948 and the courts decided in the Silverman ruling that all post-1948 "Amos 'n' title: Amos 'n' Andy text: Amos 'n' Andy Amos 'n' Andy is an American radio and television sitcom set in Harlem, Manhattan's historic black community. The original radio show, which ran from 1928 until 1960, was created, written and voiced by two white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who played Amos Jones (Gosden) and Andrew Hogg Brown (Correll), as well as incidental characters. When the show moved to television, black actors took over the majority of the roles; white characters were infrequent. "Amos 'n' Andy" began as one of the first radio comedy series and originated from station WMAQ in Chicago. After the first title: Amos 'n' Andy text: said that they named the characters Amos and Andy after hearing two elderly African-Americans greet each other by those names in a Chicago elevator. "Amos 'n' Andy" began on March 19, 1928 on WMAQ, and prior to airing each program, Gosden and Correll recorded their show on 78-rpm discs at Marsh Laboratories, operated by electrical recording pioneer Orlando R. Marsh. Early 1930s broadcasts of the show originated from the El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs, California. For the program's entire run as a nightly series in its first decade, Gosden and Correll provided over 170 male voice characterizations. With the title: Amos & Andrew text: Amos & Andrew Amos & Andrew is a 1993 American comedy film directed and written by E. Max Frye, and starring Nicolas Cage and Samuel L. Jackson. The film's title parodies that of the sitcom "Amos 'n' Andy" while the premise also appears to be a riff on "The Defiant Ones". Shot in and around Wilmington, North Carolina, the film concerns wealthy African-American playwright Andrew Sterling's (Jackson) purchase of a summer home on a predominantly white island. It was released to box office failure, grossing just under $10 million domestically, and receiving generally negative reviews from critics. When Andrew Sterling title: Amos 'n' Andy text: Andy" material was protected. All "Amos 'n' Andy" material created prior to 1948, such as episodes of the old radio show, are in the public domain. At one time it was said that there had been no official home video releases of "Amos 'n' Andy"; all were unlicensed bootleg private creations. In 1998, CBS initiated copyright infringement suits against three companies selling the videos and issued a cease and desist order to a national mail-order outfit that had offered various episodes on videocassettes via late-night TV ads during the late 1990s. However, as of June, 2018, "Amos 'n' Andy" is