Damian wrote: > From: "lizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>No, it isn't. Not one word of it is. >> > > Yes. It is. Not all but most. Everything he wrote before 1922 is public > domain. Anything after 1922 is _possibly_ public domain, due to the way > rights were transferred, one "Lovecraft scholar" has published a book on the > subject. >
Shrug. So it appears. I may have been wrong in this case. I tend to overreact to claims of works being in the public domain, since a lot of netizens have some seriously wrong notions of public domain, i.e, "Anything on the net is public domain" or "Anything out of print is public domain" and the like. Given the recent gross expansions of copyright and trademark, less and less material is public domain, to the point where the concept might as well not exist. But, as I noted elsewhere, the main issue is trademark... _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
