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COPYRIGHT:
Copyright Comes a Cropper in the Digital Age
Copyright Comes a Cropper in the Digital Age
Public-domain campaigners have the holy grail of publishing in their
sights
Series: Robert McCrum on Books
Robert McCrum
The Observer
Sunday 9 January 2011
Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/09/
robert-mccrum-copyright-law-kindle
A shorter URL for the above link:
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The big stage hit in America last year was a novel, "the most remarkable
achievement in theatre this decade", according to the New York Times. Gatz
was a word-for-word presentation of F Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age
masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, by an experimental group, the Elevator
Repair Service.
Artfully staged to dramatise a group of office workers falling under the
spell of Fitzgerald's hypnotic prose, Gatz transmitted its magic to
successive audiences who became swept up in the heady rush of falling in
love with a book. A six-hour marathon at the Public Theatre, Gatz became a
sell-out, the hottest ticket off Broadway.
But it nearly wasn't. Before it reached Manhattan, Gatz had been touring
as an out-of-town production for months, while the Fitzgerald estate's
lawyers wrangled with the show's producers over copyright permission.
As of 1 January, however, the issue has become moot. The Great Gatsby's
term of copyright is up; the novel is now in the public domain and will
join such American classics as Moby-Dick and The Scarlet Letter, books
freely available to one and all readers, publishers and producers alike.
The Fitzgerald lawyers were obstructive, but they were only doing their
job. That's how literary estates behave.
The complete article may be read at the URL above.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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