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The Great Gatsby enters the public domain in 2021. If at least one of us doesn’t have an unauthorised sequel ready to publish on January 1st at 12:01 sharp, I will be very disappointed.
I’m guessing the folks in the notes going “oh no, there’s not enough time!” fall into one of two groups:
1. People who misread the year and don’t realise I’m talking about a deadline fourteen months from now.
2. People who have an uncommonly realistic notion of the pace of their writing.
I’m #2
Plus I would imagine F. Scott Fitzgerald’s estate will probably renew the copyright.
That’s not how it works. There hasn’t been any such thing as copyright renewal for a long time, and even when copyright renewal was a thing, the effect of renewing was to prevent the relevant rights from expiring early, not to extend them beyond the usual statutory limit. With the exception of audio recordings, works published between 1923 and 1976 cap out at the date of publication plus 95 years – and that span is up for The Great Gatsby on January 1st, 2021.
so i could totally put gatsby into my sherlock and dracula story?
Yes, though you might have to wait a bit longer if you’re inclined to be picky about your timelines; while the bulk of the Sherlock Holmes canon is unencumbered by copyright, the last few short stories that cover the period of Holmes’ retirement – which is where his lifetime lines up with the events of The Great Gatsby – don’t enter the public domain until 2023.
(Holmes would canonically be 68 years old when the summer of 1922 chronicled in The Great Gatsby goes down, for the curious. How precisely he’d be induced to set aside his beekeeping and take a trip to Long Island at that age, I leave as an exercise for the inventive writer!)
Shit, I still have time to write Nobody’s Little Fool, my Great Gatsby sequel where the publishing of The Great Gatsby leads to Tom Buchanan murdering Daisy, and twenty years later their daughter sets out to write a scathing tell-all that will ruin Nick Carraway for his part in her mother’s murder, set against a backdrop of late-Depression-era Chicago.
copperbadge:
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agni-kai13:
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resplendentgoldenwings:
prokopetz:
prokopetz:
The Great Gatsby enters the public domain in 2021. If at least one of us doesn’t have an unauthorised sequel ready to publish on January 1st at 12:01 sharp, I will be very disappointed.
I’m guessing the folks in the notes going “oh no, there’s not enough time!” fall into one of two groups:
1. People who misread the year and don’t realise I’m talking about a deadline fourteen months from now.
2. People who have an uncommonly realistic notion of the pace of their writing.
I’m #2
Plus I would imagine F. Scott Fitzgerald’s estate will probably renew the copyright.
That’s not how it works. There hasn’t been any such thing as copyright renewal for a long time, and even when copyright renewal was a thing, the effect of renewing was to prevent the relevant rights from expiring early, not to extend them beyond the usual statutory limit. With the exception of audio recordings, works published between 1923 and 1976 cap out at the date of publication plus 95 years – and that span is up for The Great Gatsby on January 1st, 2021.
so i could totally put gatsby into my sherlock and dracula story?
Yes, though you might have to wait a bit longer if you’re inclined to be picky about your timelines; while the bulk of the Sherlock Holmes canon is unencumbered by copyright, the last few short stories that cover the period of Holmes’ retirement – which is where his lifetime lines up with the events of The Great Gatsby – don’t enter the public domain until 2023.
(Holmes would canonically be 68 years old when the summer of 1922 chronicled in The Great Gatsby goes down, for the curious. How precisely he’d be induced to set aside his beekeeping and take a trip to Long Island at that age, I leave as an exercise for the inventive writer!)
Shit, I still have time to write Nobody’s Little Fool, my Great Gatsby sequel where the publishing of The Great Gatsby leads to Tom Buchanan murdering Daisy, and twenty years later their daughter sets out to write a scathing tell-all that will ruin Nick Carraway for his part in her mother’s murder, set against a backdrop of late-Depression-era Chicago.
