Public Domain Day

[MajorRewrite]

January 1 is “public domain day”. Books published in 1930 entered into public domain today, including:

• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (Sam Spade)
• The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (introduced Miss Marple)
• Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers
• the first four Nancy Drew mysteries

The movie All Quiet on the Western Front also enters public domain.

Anyone can now reinterpret these works in any way they want. Although Lit rules still apply so you can’t write Nancy Drew erotica if she was under 18 in the original works.

A couple of my stories are loosely based on classics, but I hadn’t considered anything remotely contemporary.

Is anyone going to take a stab at writing Lit versions of The Maltese Falcon or The Murder at the Vicarage? I guess you could blend the two stories to have Sam Spade and Miss Marple join forces (and have wild monkey sex)!! The mind boggles.

 

[MelissaBaby]

January 1 is “public domain day”. Books published in 1930 entered into public domain today, including:

• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (Sam Spade)
• The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (introduced Miss Marple)
• Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers
• the first four Nancy Drew mysteries

The movie All Quiet on the Western Front also enters public domain.

Anyone can now reinterpret these works in any way they want. Although Lit rules still apply so you can’t write Nancy Drew erotica if she was under 18 in the original works.

A couple of my stories are loosely based on classics, but I hadn’t considered anything remotely contemporary.

Is anyone going to take a stab at writing Lit versions of The Maltese Falcon or The Murder at the Vicarage? I guess you could blend the two stories to have Sam Spade and Miss Marple join forces (and have wild monkey sex)!! The mind boggles.

Betty Boop has also entered public domain, and there is at least one movie already in the works.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Betty Boop has also entered public domain, and there is at least one movie already in the works.

But only the Betty Boop version in the 1930 cartoons is public domain, and that Boop was a dog (not ugly, an actual dog).

This YouTube video is an entertaining look at the topic …

 

[AchtungNight]

The Maltese Falcon? That’s the stuff that dreams are made of!