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erwgv3g34  18d ago (web.law.duke.edu)   484 thread views

Happy Public Domain Day! Today, works that were published in 1930 like "All Quiet on the Western Front", "Cimarron", "As I Lay Dying", "The Maltese Falcon", & "Last and First Men" enter the American public domain, while authors who died in 1955 like Dale Carnegie enter the Australian public domain.

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I recommend checking out "The Million Pound Deposit" by E. Phillips Oppenheim, a long-forgotten but prolific author. A fun tale of corporate espionage and stock manipulation.

See also The Financier and its sequel The Titan.

I saw a video last night about this, that I won't link, because the guy just had to bring up 95 years of communist grievances every time an old work was insufficiently divserse.

Thanks, schmuck, I'm sure glad I know that Dick and Jane learn to read books are racist and sexist.

lmao, I think I just got the exact same video recommended to me, guess it's popular for some reason

I wonder if say, the Estate of Dashiell Hammett still exists in some form, and if they have to plan for the cessation of royalties from The Maltese Falcon. And if so - were they going to some great-grandchild all along? Or some trust? Do the estates of famous authors just continue for decades?

Google, citing two pages that are unavailable at the moment and are not in the Internet Archive (1 2) and one page that is available, indicates that "the Estate of Dashiell Hammett" does still exist (managed by a literary agency).

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