Comments on: "Give away the content and sell the object" http://tomcaswell.com/2007/06/27/give-away-the-content-and-sell-the-object/ Listen. Share. Learn. Thu, 17 May 2012 04:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Matthew Buckley http://tomcaswell.com/2007/06/27/give-away-the-content-and-sell-the-object/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Matthew Buckley Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:49:00 +0000 http://tomcaswell.com/blog/2007/06/27/give-away-the-content-and-sell-the-object/#comment-41 Exactly. I think we lose out on so much because of the stringent copyright laws. One of the most popular musicals on Broadway right now is Wicked. It is a work that is built upon the work of another, and is a whole lot of fun. But they had to wait until the work came out in the public domain. Wizard of Oz came into the public domain 56 years after it was written, but now work takes even longer to do so. How fun would it be to see what Steven King does with the Harry Potter world? We'll never know, because King will be long dead before HP is every ready to be 'built upon' or 'reused'.<br/><br/>As an author, I completely agree with the notion of giving away content, while still 'selling the object'. Exactly. I think we lose out on so much because of the stringent copyright laws. One of the most popular musicals on Broadway right now is Wicked. It is a work that is built upon the work of another, and is a whole lot of fun. But they had to wait until the work came out in the public domain. Wizard of Oz came into the public domain 56 years after it was written, but now work takes even longer to do so. How fun would it be to see what Steven King does with the Harry Potter world? We’ll never know, because King will be long dead before HP is every ready to be ‘built upon’ or ‘reused’.

As an author, I completely agree with the notion of giving away content, while still ‘selling the object’.

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