Once works enter into the public area, derivative works such as adaptations in book and film may perhaps improve significantly, as happened with Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel The Secret Garden, which grew to become public domain within the US in 1977 and mo… Read More

Among the earliest Elizabethan plays are Gorboduc (1561) by Sackville and Norton, and Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy (1592). Gorboduc is notable especially since the first verse drama in English to make use of blank verse, and to the way it developed featur… Read More

Courts in different jurisdictions have come to different conclusions as to whether the reproduction of the public domain work gains its individual legal rights protection, or whether it too is during the public area. In the German 2016 case, the Reiss-Engelhor… Read More

I’m apprehensive about 230 getting the axe, way too. But as someone with no actual sociopolitical power, I couldn’t stop that from taking place whether or not I tried. Whatever happens, happens; we’ll all have to adapt in some way. And when you refuse to adap… Read More

Cigarette smuggling with a book Dummy books (or fake books) are books that are designed to imitate a real book by overall look to deceive people, some books may very well be whole with empty pages, others might be hollow or in other cases, there could be a wh… Read More