...and, in fact, the complete works of prolific sci-fi author H.P. Lovecraft enter the public domain this thursday! Might be one to submit to boingboing, I think....
On 3/13/07, Tim Cowlishaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all, just a general observation, but I've just noticed (via Phil Harper's great repository of author data at www.kingkong.demon.co.uk) that J.M. Barrie died on the 19th of June 1937 - meaning that his body of work will enter the public domain this year... apart, of course, from 'Peter Pan' which has a perpetual copyright specifically written in to the CDPA 1988, with all the proceeds going to Great Ormond St. Children's Hospital. While I'm not suggesting that we should start a "Don't let those sick kiddies take what's rightfully yours!" campaign to return Peter Pan to the public domain (probably not a great PR exercise), since J.M. Barrie is a pretty well known and liked author (with a pretty huge body of work), and the Peter Pan thing is a pretty interesting bit of copyright trivia (even to those who aren't lawyers or free culture geeks), perhaps we could take this opportunity to run a few events and activities on or around the 19th of June highlighting the value of the public domain? (in a tasteful, not-dancing-on-his-grave sort of way, of course!) Cheers! Tim
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