The Bowdlerized Roald Dahl

Hans Blaster said:

If I understand copyright law enough, the modified versions now have a new copyright clock running...

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Hans Blaster said:

If I understand copyright law enough, the modified versions now have a new copyright clock running...

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Tuur said:

Oddly, Fahrenheit 451 was Bradbury's take on television. Once, when he told this in a lecture to college students, they argued that he, the author, was wrong and it was about censorship.

My first thought on reading about this was "Han shot first." Except the changes in the first Star Wars film was by Lucas himself. These changes are after Dahl's death.

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Pommer said:

Life of the author +50 years!

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JSRG said:

Life of the author plus 70 years, actually. (at least in the United States and UK, not sure about other countries)

That's for cases where an individual has the copyright, though. Things copyrighted by companies rather than people, as there is no life involved, last for a flat 95 years. Or at least that's how it is in the US--not entirely sure about the UK.

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Pommer said:

My law degree was lost when the cereal box was thrown away.

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RDKirk said:

Sooner or later, they're going after "To Kill a Mockingbird."

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