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Public Domain Superheroes?

Posted by michael on from the stretch-dude-and-clobber-girl dept.

SerpicoWasTaken writes "Here is an interesting article about a group of comic book heroes from the golden age that are in the public domain. Apparently, a bunch of golden age heroes were never copyrighted and just faded into obscurity. The article also contains a long discussion of copyright and the public domain. It is an interesting read for all those interested in the public domain." Update: 09/25 17:51 GMT by M : Link removed at the request of the site maintainers because it's killing their server. Update: 09/25 19:02 GMT by M : They've put the document on a static page instead of a cgi script. :)

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  1. GoogleNews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Try this!

  2. Re:"Never copyrighted"? I don't think so. by bluGill · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Today that is true, but not back then. Today if you create it you own a copyright on it. Back then if you didn't take steps (I'm not sure what, but registration most likely) you had no copyright.