"Lovecraft - Public Domain?" Topic
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Deucey  | 05 Apr 2010 11:13 a.m. PST |
Are his stories in the public domain? If not, who has the rights? |
 Doms Decals  | 05 Apr 2010 11:17 a.m. PST |
Always dodgy citing a wikipedia link, but it's a good summary: link |
| Thieses | 05 Apr 2010 11:28 a.m. PST |
Dom thanks for the post. I have always wondered about this status myself. I personally own publications by at least 20 different authors writing in the Cthulhu Mythos. Also I have a bunch of different Cthulhu figures made by several different companies. These are actually called "C"thulhu" by name, not some "not" toy. |
| Doms Decals | 05 Apr 2010 11:34 a.m. PST |
The bottom line on that is that Lovecraft himself wasn't exactly awkward about copyright – he very actively encouraged other writers to share in his "world" as it were (I guess if he were writing today Cthulhu would be an "open licence" project or similar….) |
| Space Monkey | 05 Apr 2010 11:56 a.m. PST |
I think the only danger is that a lot of the stuff people attribute to Lovecraft might actually be the creation of other authors or companies that ARE under copyright.
To my mind Chaosium are kind of the current 'spiritual' guardians of the stuff but they're not a litigious bunch. Except for the name recognition of that small handful of Mythos entities I don't see why you wouldn't just create your own batch of beasties in a similar vein… and avoid the question altogether. |
| Pictors Studio | 05 Apr 2010 12:10 p.m. PST |
A lot of his works are available on Librivox and that is all public domain stuff. |
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