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From: lizard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 1:37 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] If Thoughts Could Kill -
Illithid reference violatio n?
Lenze, Troy, (DC-Cap) wrote:
> Hmm... For some reason I've always avoided those
movies... :-) Seriously,
> though, I haven't seen it.
>
> As for ripping of Lovecraft, well, a lot of, or all of,
his material is
> public domain now.
No, it isn't. Not one word of it is. Lovecraft died in 1939?
1949?
Either way, material does not become public domain
until...well,
technically, it's 75 years from the death of the author
currently, but,
in reality, NO material will EVER enter the public domain
again, unless
explicitly placed there by the creator. Public domain, for
all practical
purposes, no longer exists for any material which is not
already there.
Well, I'll cite my source then, because I'm just regurgitating what I've
been told. (I'm a product of the US school system, can't you tell?) I got
my info from the last post on this forum:
http://boards.wizards.com/community/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=266&t=000
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