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Why is this shocking? Sherlock predates Mickey by 41 years.
No, the Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes was published in 1927. Steamboat Willie is from 1928. Copyright law in the US is basically built around Mickey Mouse. Sherlock Holmes seems to barely make the cut into public domain.
Some real absolutely timeless classic stories are available in the public domain right now. If I had more time, money and passion, I'd be the RMS of the public domain. In my mind it's the free-est a work can possibly be. Unencumbered by licensing or copyright (or copyleft) considerations. You like it? Use it for whatever you want in whatever way you want. One of my friends was looking for something to read, had an ol…
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Thanks for a great post. My family will have lots of good stuff to read when we go on vacation!
I can't recall the exact process, but you can bookmark a certain Project Gutenberg page on the Kindle that puts basically all of their works at your fingertips. May I also plug Distributed Proofreaders ( http://www.pgdp.net/ ), which is a major source of primary source documents to Project Gutenberg. It is the power of the global community of internet citizens who digitize scanned documents that are difficult or impo…
Some real absolutely timeless classic stories are available in the public domain right now. If I had more time, money and passion, I'd be the RMS of the public domain. In my mind it's the free-est a work can possibly be. Unencumbered by licensing or copyright (or copyleft) considerations. You like it? Use it for whatever you want in whatever way you want. One of my friends was looking for something to read, had an ol…