Yes, It is nice to hear an attorney's perspective. Thanks J.D.
I believe that Project guttenberg runs into this all the time. You
have to be very careful, because though the original work may have
fallen into the public domain, translations and interpretations may
not have... and that's an
I promised I'd ask an attorney friend about our friend Gumby, and
Andrew's idea of dusting him off and remixing him for the 21st
century. Here's what she says:
This Gumby Problem is a lot like the Peter Pan case I worked on
(and eventually settled) at Stanford last year. The problem is: what
gumby has the added complication of being a content series
it seems that while some pieces may have fallen out of copyright, other
more recent ones may have not
so just saying gumby is (or is not) in PD does not seem to make sense
to me
i think you can only ask the copyright question about
Thanks JD, great information!!
On Apr 26, 2006, at 9:49 PM, JD Lasica wrote:
I promised I'd ask an attorney friend about our friend Gumby, and
Andrew's idea of dusting him off and remixing him for the 21st
century. Here's what she says:
This Gumby Problem is a lot like the Peter Pan
