Re: copyright expiration as a spur to creativity

On Tue, 04 Aug 1998, Karsten M. Self <kmself[_at_]ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> While I'd argue for a significant time period before permanent lapse
> of copyright to an author, preferably several years, my general
> feeling is that if the author cannot find a publisher willing to
> publish a work, then there probably is little or no commercial
> interest in it.

Not so. I had a manuscript I tried very vigorously to sell, and nobody wanted it. I put it away, and twenty years later a publisher wanted it. This kind of thing is more common than not.

Pat Sloane
<patsloane[_at_]aol.com> Received on Fri Aug 07 1998 - 10:34:31 GMT