Now in the Public Domain in the UK

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NickFitz replied

2 January 2012, 19:30
Originally posted by russell View Post

Copyright? The Internet has rendered that useless. (see nzbmatrix or pirate bay for more details)

Really? Wow, that's incredible! How come I've been using the Internet for twenty years yet never encountered this concept before?
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d000hg replied

2 January 2012, 13:54
Originally posted by russell View Post

Copyright? The Internet has rendered that useless.

Only if you don't mind breaking the rules.

I got a fair few free Kindle books the other day including a bunch of Dickens. I find an eReader encourages you to read more widely since so many of the classics are free.
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russell replied

2 January 2012, 10:34
Copyright? The Internet has rendered that useless. (see nzbmatrix or pirate bay for more details)
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NickFitz replied

2 January 2012, 02:07
Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post

Brilliant! I have most of Sir J G Frazer's 12 volume magnum opus The Golden Bough in mega PDF files, and now perhaps someone will scan the remainder.

The Internet Archive is way ahead of you

In fact they have the twelve volumes scanned multiple times from different university libraries.
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OwlHoot replied

2 January 2012, 01:08
Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

As they died in 1941, the literary works of the following authors are now out of copyright in the UK (assuming nobody pulled a Peter Pan):

...

Sir J. G. Fraser

Anybody got any more?

Brilliant! I have most of Sir J G Frazer's 12 volume magnum opus The Golden Bough in mega PDF files, and now perhaps someone will scan the remainder.
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AtW replied

1 January 2012, 23:52
Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

So I expect ATW to know some random weird facts about the UK most of which aren't true.

After around 15 years of living in the UK I've got plenty of weird facts that are true
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SueEllen replied

1 January 2012, 23:45
Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

I'm afraid that says more about you than about the authors

English teachers in foreign lands teach their pupils strange things. So I expect ATW to know some random weird facts about the UK most of which aren't true.
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NickFitz replied

1 January 2012, 23:12
Originally posted by AtW View Post

Two great timeless authors against 5 that I've never heard of before

I'm afraid that says more about you than about the authors
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AtW replied

1 January 2012, 22:56
Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

1930 and 1946 respectively

Two great timeless authors against 5 that I've never heard of before
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NickFitz replied

1 January 2012, 22:55
Originally posted by AtW View Post

Sir Conan Doyle

Herbert George Wells

1930 and 1946 respectively
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AtW replied

1 January 2012, 22:50
Sir Conan Doyle

Herbert George Wells
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NickFitz started a topic Now in the Public Domain in the UK

1 January 2012, 22:40
Now in the Public Domain in the UK
As they died in 1941, the literary works of the following authors are now out of copyright in the UK (assuming nobody pulled a Peter Pan):

Virginia Woolf

James Joyce

P. C. Wren

Rabindranath Tagore

Sir J. G. Fraser

Anybody got any more?
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