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Copyright law?
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I wonder if anyone could help me with regards to publishing copywright law?
Basically, to publish pieces of literature on a website (and possibly later in print) what is the deal regarding their ownership?
So if the author is dead, who owns the copyright? I presume the publishers or editors to some degree...but if i were to put a poem (or say a works of shakespeare) online, would i have to take it from one of the original texts and edit it to some degree of modern english? I'm guessing i couldn't transcribe an oxford university press edition...
Basically, to publish pieces of literature on a website (and possibly later in print) what is the deal regarding their ownership?
So if the author is dead, who owns the copyright? I presume the publishers or editors to some degree...but if i were to put a poem (or say a works of shakespeare) online, would i have to take it from one of the original texts and edit it to some degree of modern english? I'm guessing i couldn't transcribe an oxford university press edition...
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Michael Jackson owns some of the beatels songs and so forth and so forth.
OP: I don't know.
(1612 edition of richard III)
I thought texts became free from copyright after 75 years or something like that, i just wasn't sure if particular versions are, since as i say most are edited accounts. Nice to know that many of our great works are effectively public domain. What i'm looking at doing is publishing the works of many lost authors from the renaissance through to the 19th century online.