Quick question

[thandrak.insanejournal.com]

In dealing with Golden Age stuff, where the stories are short and the page count is high, how many pages of a comic can we post? Let's say the story is 8 pages long, and the comic is, say, 60 or so?

Hell, or Seuss? You decide.

Comments

[thandrak.insanejournal.com]

Only mostly true. If the copyright had not entered the public domain by 1978, then what you're saying is more or less true.
If, however, before 1978, then, if it was published before 1923, it is public domain. If, however, it was published _after_ 1923, but _before_ 1978, and a renewal notice had not been filed with the US Copyright Office in the 28th year of its copyright, before the need was removed in '92, it is public domain. Thus, works whose copyright had not been renewed, and were published before 1964, are in the public domain.

(Of course, there's weird areas, like how Night of the Living Dead (1968) is public domain due to a screwup.)

A lot of Golden Age stuff is public domain because nobody bothered to renew.