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Superman originaly was to be an Earth Man from the future... lettersofnote.com
John C:
The publication date rules, Jim, not creation, and I can't believe that nobody ever noticed a 1934 Superman comic strip drawn by Russell Keaton in the papers. If it was never actually published (for example, if it was circulated among fans after finding it at an auction--as I said, I have no clue how these came to light), the copyright would be Life+70.
The only situation I could imagine where there might not be copyright is, if this was produced by the Siegel estate as part of trying to reclaim the assigned copyright, its first publication would be in court records. The records generally are (I believe) generally considered public domain, because case law is kind of important for people to see, but I don't know what the rules are on evidence, and I don't know if that's how the strips came to be known.
bminor:
Absolutely fascinating stuff.
You never know what will be surfacing here at DCM.
DCM is becoming THE public domain repository library for everything relating to comic book history.
B.
Yoc:
--- Quote from: John C on January 03, 2013, 03:42:41 PM ---I don't know the provenance (so I'm not sure about how copyrights would shake out for them beyond a plausible Fair Use claim) and I believe I saw more elsewhere that I can't think of, but looking here might provide something interesting on the topic. Err...Not the Santa topic.
http://uncivilsociety.org/2008/08/the-mystery-note.html
--- End quote ---
I missed this yesterday John. Thanks.
You know the first thing I notice when using that link is the horrendous bloody SPAM that jerks seem to be doing these days in the comments sections of blogs. It's a blight on an otherwise great way to share stuff of interesting on the net. Bastards.
John C:
I understand spam. It's dirt cheap to put your message in front of enough people that, even if you get an abyssmal tenth of a percent click-through, it's probably a good deal, especially if the link installs malware to compromise security.
What I can't understand is inept spam. Occasionally I'll check links in a safe environment (a virtual machine, say, that I can delete afterwards), and a surprising number of links are usually dead.
Or you occasionally get messages with no links, just garbage text. No clue what the heck that's about. Some sort of Lovecraftian plot to infect humanity with bad dreams about poorly-spelled male enhancement drugs and African ex-princes with no bank accounts?
Yoc:
A plague on all spammers!
There goes John again, give the jerks ideas and now us nightmares.
;)
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