Oooo! That would be fun! T-shirts! Jef =================================================================== Mystical Realms -...
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WendellWag@...
wendell_wagner
May 2, 2011 2:27 pm
T-shirts designed for each Mythcon are pretty standard. Wendell Wagner In a message dated 5/2/2011 9:05:53 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jef.murray@......
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Ernest Davis
ernestsdavis
May 2, 2011 11:56 pm
I very much enjoyed David's review of "War of the Fantasy Worlds" by Martha Sammons in this month's Mythprint, and look forward to the full-length hatchet job...
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Alana Abbott
artiephesus
May 3, 2011 1:05 am
Ernie, could it partly be due to one of the phrases coming from the narrator, while the other is being used in dialog? Faramir's line is probably an...
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Darrell A. Martin
forbarad
May 3, 2011 1:18 am
... Alana: Or it may be that Faramir is simply less adept with Westron than the Hobbit narrator is with English [grin]. I do believe, however, that Sindarin...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
May 3, 2011 1:42 am
I think in large part it is due to the alliteration in "Bilbo's breath", "express his staggerment, since", "the language learned of elves", and "when all the...
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Doug Kane
voronwe1
May 3, 2011 5:30 pm
A while back the dispute over the book Mirkwood, A Novel About J.R.R. Tolkien sparked quite a discussion about the Tolkien Estate's actions protecting...
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lynnmaudlin
May 4, 2011 1:57 am
Actually, the last couple of years, I've done them (either personally or jointly with the committee) through Vistaprint (since I'd already paid to upload the...
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lynnmaudlin
May 4, 2011 2:00 am
"Now if only something could be done about Hillard's prose." THAT is, I fear, beyond the power of the courts.... -- Lynn --...
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Andrew Higgins
asthiggins
May 4, 2011 7:01 am
Continuing along this line of Tolken themed books - has anyone dipped into Michael Ridpath's Where the Shadows Lie a thriller set in Iceland whose main plot...
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dale nelson
extollager2006
May 5, 2011 2:44 am
We have some librarians here. I have a question. It is for curiosity's sake; the prequel idea I"m about to mention just occurred to me this moment. Giles...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
May 5, 2011 2:54 am
Copyright in written works pertains not just to the words of a work itself, but also to derivative works, including the use of characters, settings,...
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Croft, Janet B.
jbcroft73019
May 5, 2011 1:35 pm
Carl's right - the author retains the right to create derivative works as long as the original is under copyright. Which is why fan fiction is such a grey...
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icelofangeln
May 5, 2011 2:07 pm
However, Dale, don't lose all hope: CW died in 1945, so his copyrights will expire fairly soon, on 1 January 2016....
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Jason Fisher
visualweasel
May 5, 2011 2:11 pm
Why anyone should want to do this in the first place -- i.e., create derivative works based on the creative efforts of others -- is something I don't quite ...
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Jason Fisher
visualweasel
May 5, 2011 2:13 pm
So few people even read Williams himself, would anyone read works derivative of him?! ;) ________________________________ From: IcelofAngeln...
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WendellWag@...
wendell_wagner
May 5, 2011 2:15 pm
Is there going to be a book toss at this year's Mythcon? You can bring along boxes of books that no one wants to review and toss them all at the wall. ...
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Alana Abbott
artiephesus
May 5, 2011 2:19 pm
... Jase, I used to read *all* of them (some of them quite good, some of them... not) -- but college interfered, so at this point, I'm more than 10 years ...
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Alana Abbott
artiephesus
May 5, 2011 2:22 pm
... Does this hold true for British copyright law? I know there are differences between the US and the UK on this topic but haven't ever quite been able to ...
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Jason Fisher
visualweasel
May 5, 2011 2:24 pm
Good idea, but we'd be there all day. I probably have 50 unclaimed review titles by now! I have thought about putting some of them up for auction at Mythcon,...
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Croft, Janet B.
jbcroft73019
May 5, 2011 2:24 pm
But haven’t you ever been inspired to, say, wonder what The Odyssey might look like if your main character wandered through the Depression-era southern...
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marc drayer
mdrayer2001
May 5, 2011 2:34 pm
And there are several real good fanfics of the Inklings works out that I have read, particularly fanfics of the Narnia series which try to resolve the problem...
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Jo Foster
joanne.foster43
May 5, 2011 2:34 pm
But it has, eg, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Yes, a bit later but still. And Homer won't sue. Jo _____ From: mythsoc@yahoogroups.com...
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Mike Foster
mafoster43
May 5, 2011 2:40 pm
Not to mention all of Peoria writer Philip Jose Farmer’s “Riverworld” series and his Venus on the Half Shell featuring K. Vonnegut Jr.’s sci-fi writer...
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Jason Fisher
visualweasel
May 5, 2011 2:51 pm
Good point, Janet! This is a little different from what the kind of derivative work IÂ was thinking of. Yes, such works as these sometimes interest me. I'm a ...
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Constance Edwards
constanceedw...
May 5, 2011 3:13 pm
Janet B. Croft wrote: Google Kim Stanley Robinson’s short story “Melancholy Elephants” for an eloquent discussion of this problem. Um... Spider Robinson,...
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Croft, Janet B.
jbcroft73019
May 5, 2011 3:23 pm
Right! Shouldn’t type before that second cup of coffee. Melancholy elephants --- on Mars! Janet From: mythsoc@yahoogroups.com...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
May 5, 2011 3:30 pm
... I don't believe that's the case. His novels published in his own lifetime expire their copyright 95 years after publication, thus 2026 at the earliest,...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
May 5, 2011 3:30 pm
... In a later post, you wrote that you didn't mean things like "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", but that's not what you said above. You're now in the...
