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turoksonofstone:
 Reign of the Supermen the original Siegel and Shuster story. Is it Public Domain? Or does DC somehow own it?

Yoc:
No idea there T but I seriously doubt we'll be sharing it.
Too risky IMO.

John C:
DC almost certainly wouldn't have any ownership stake (why would they?), but there are two hurdles I can envision, which would require more research than just knowing the story is there.

First, if the story or whatever it was published in--"zine," for lack of a more period term, I guess--had a copyright notice, then it was automatically renewed and extended.

Second, if the "zine" wasn't easily available, the Copyright Office might not consider it "published" in the technical sense.  In that case, it would have a Life+70 copyright term.

In either of those cases, it'd be controlled by the Siegel and Shuster estates, rather than DC.  So using it wouldn't be so much "stickin' it to the Man" as "stickin' it to people who the Man stuck it to."

Roygbiv666:
Just curious, why would it be automatically renewed/extended?

Can you expand on the "Life+70" idea?


--- Quote from: John C on January 25, 2013, 03:25:45 PM ---DC almost certainly wouldn't have any ownership stake (why would they?), but there are two hurdles I can envision, which would require more research than just knowing the story is there.

First, if the story or whatever it was published in--"zine," for lack of a more period term, I guess--had a copyright notice, then it was automatically renewed and extended.

Second, if the "zine" wasn't easily available, the Copyright Office might not consider it "published" in the technical sense.  In that case, it would have a Life+70 copyright term.

In either of those cases, it'd be controlled by the Siegel and Shuster estates, rather than DC.  So using it wouldn't be so much "stickin' it to the Man" as "stickin' it to people who the Man stuck it to."

--- End quote ---

JVJ (RIP):
"Life+70 years" is the current extent of a copyright, Roy. It lasts for 70 years after the death of the creator. All of this fiddling with the 28 years + 28 years that once was started to occur in the mid-1970s, just about when Mickey Mouse was about to go into the Public Domain. Welcome to the copyrighted future. It's unlikely that anything we now know about will enter the PD in our lifetimes.

Peace, Jim (|:{>

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