Isabell Long wrote:
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 02:57:52AM +0000, geni wrote:
January 1st is Public Domain Day. That is the day that all the works of everyone who died in 1939 enter the public domain. No I'm not the only one to note this creative commons apparently picks up on it:
Wow, that's good! I didn't realise that!
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11920
The most interesting name I'm aware of this year is Howard Carter who created a lot of paintings and drawings of Egyptian archaeological artifacts.
Oh, quite interesting then!
I'm trying to put together more names but I was wounder if it was something a press release could be built around?
Good idea, yeah I think it could be too, though what else could be put in it? I don't know who does the press releases here.
King Tut's tomb is strong enough for a press release (here we go again!). Discovered in 1922, only now will the public be able to treat Carter's works as their property.
Other deaths of authors: Havelock Ellis; Ford Madox Ford; Sigmund Freud; Zane Grey; Joseph Roth; W. B. Yeats.
Arthur Rackham the illustrator too.
Charles **