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Post by theironshadow on Mar 5, 2020 8:38:05 GMT -5
Jason said: "As for Cabinet and REH Properties, or whatever they are calling themselves these days, they aren't that big of a company, basically just an IP holding company making money off licensed products and hoping for that movie or tv deal that's never coming. They'd fight it in court, too." An IP holding company owned by a multi-millonaire married to a lawyer. Myself, I wouldn't risk creating new stuff without their approval. I didn't realise that Frederik Malmberg's husband Joachim Zetterberg was a lawyer, explains his position in the company over the years. As for Cabinet visibly 'relaxing' the rights to Conan, something must have happened; at one point they were shutting down even fan films; now they are allowing the publication of effectively competing graphic novel adaptations of Conan under the proviso the Conan name isn't used on the cover. That's quite a change in stance indeed. I guess that the more exposure that Conan as a character get's, the better, in whatever positive format.  |
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Post by ramos on Jan 15, 2021 10:06:05 GMT -5
Hello, dear Conan fans.I saw a lot of cool Conan audiobooks that are superbly done on YouTube this year. I was wondering are Conan stories in the public domain or the people who uploaded these book on youtube had to get some kind of nod from somebody to be able to do that?
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Post by themirrorthief on Jan 15, 2021 11:16:04 GMT -5
I dont know but thanks for calling me Dear...
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Post by linefacedscrivener on Jan 15, 2021 11:36:06 GMT -5
Hello, dear Conan fans.I saw a lot of cool Conan audiobooks that are superbly done on YouTube this year. I was wondering are Conan stories in the public domain or the people who uploaded these book on youtube had to get some kind of nod from somebody to be able to do that? Copyright is tricky business and I am no lawyer, but I do spend a lot of time dealing with this. When Howard published during his lifetime, the Copyright law in effect was the 1909 Copyright Law. It stated that an author had a copyright on their work for 28 years, at which point they could renew it for another 28 years (initially 14). As Howard was unable to renew the copyright and his estate was not in a position to do so, the copyright ran out. However, keep in mind, this is only on the original Weird Tales and early pulp stories. Anything published later is most likely still under copyright law and cannot be used (this would include the de Camp Conan stories, his revision of the Conan stories, or the more modern pure-Howard text Conan stories). Some authors were alive, still engaged in the publishing business, and had the foresight to renew their copyright, including such authors as August Derleth and Robert Bloch. Hope that helps. |
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Post by ramos on Jan 15, 2021 12:38:49 GMT -5
Really helpful. Thank you for your time!
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