A question about scripts of lost media

I think it depends on how old the source material is since it could possibly fall into the public domain like other works, but I'm not sure if scripts get extra protection and you have to deal with the Writer's Guild and any sort of estate holders that might be the same. Given how a lot of titles have already turned 100 years old, I have my doubts that certain studios would care a whole lot; especially if they're absolutely obscure or there's little to nothing left of the original material.

tomikaelson: Yeah, that's the hard part about this kind of a thing. There's usually next to nothing left of the original source material apart from, maybe, a synopsis and promotional material if you're lucky. One positive about something like King Kong Appears in Edo is that at least minor fragments are still around to give us an idea as to what we're missing. It's a shame that there's older stuff from Japan that's completely lost, and there's content from over here in the US that didn't fair much better either. With no surviving scripts, photos, or episode summaries to speak of that we know of, we have no idea where to take things. Here, I would think about stuff like The Television Ghost and silent era films since those production companies and radio stations are defunct now.