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[Moejoe]

I'm Spartacus!

Wait, wrong reply I'm in.

[jaxx6166]

I'll give it a shot too.

Should I work on some guidelines for submissions?

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by jaxx6166

We'll need some sort of guidelines

We'll need a name too. Something fun, like "Hound: A Collection of Sherlock Holmes Inspired Tales" or "Elementary: a Mobileread Collection of Sherlock Holmes inspired fiction"

EDIT: yeah, stick some guidelines down.

[jaxx6166]

I just read an article that said Holmes is in copyright in the US until 2023. Would this complicate things?

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by jaxx6166

I just read an article that said Holmes is in copyright in the US until 2023. Would this complicate things?

We need someone who knows copyright to tell us. Anybody know the situation on works 'inspired' by Holmes?

And if we can't, there's copyright screwing up new work yet again!

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

... I'm buzzing already, I have my first story lined up: 221b Hyphen Beta Model, it's about a detective robot on the moon with a strange dependency on music and odd hound-like footprints in the dust just beyond a colony dome....
...

Wow, that's amazing! I just had exactly the same story idea.

Cheers,
Marc (...except mine had terrier-like footprints)

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

We need someone who knows copyright to tell us. Anybody know the situation on works 'inspired' by Holmes?

And if we can't, there's copyright screwing up new work yet again!

Techdirt says no, with a maybe:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...18397826.shtml

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Wow, that's amazing! I just had exactly the same story idea.

Cheers,
Marc (...except mine had terrier-like footprints)

Doesn't matter, the copyright police probably won't let either of us write it

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Techdirt says no, with a maybe:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...18397826.shtml

See, this is why I loathe, despise, hate and other words that don't even exist yet, the publishers and all their lackeys and lickspittles. We were all buzzing, we had a nice fun idea going, and then...boom! No more fun, because those fuckers can't wring another dirty little cent out of a character that can't possibly make the original author a living any longer.

F**k copyright!

[jaxx6166]

All is not lost. Apparently Edgar Allan Poe is in the public domain.

And he invented the detective story.

And I think he's more fun than Holmes

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

...

F**k copyright!

Settle, my friend. 'S, okay. With jaxx6166's helpful enthusiasm we'll move on to other ideas, which will fiercely flourish in the famous fecundity of your mind, just like it always does.

Cheers,
Marc

[jaxx6166]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Settle, my friend. 'S, okay. With jaxx6166's helpful enthusiasm we'll move on to other ideas, which will fiercely flourish in the famous fecundity of your mind, just like it always does.

Ugh. Thanks buddy. Now I need a dictionary =)

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Settle, my friend. 'S, okay. With jaxx6166's helpful enthusiasm we'll move on to other ideas, which will fiercely flourish in the famous fecundity of your mind, just like it always does.

Cheers,
Marc

I'm still going to write the story

I'm cool with Poe, I'm down with him as our focus (as the kids might say)

OOoooohhhh... I think I have a title 'Bust'....

[jaxx6166]

Let's do Poe. He's done so much, that the anthology can pretty much be open to anything.

"Purloined Letters: Works Inspired by Poe"

Got a better title, MJ?

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by jaxx6166

Let's do Poe. He's done so much, that the anthology can pretty much be open to anything.

"Purloined Letters: Works Inspired by Poe"

Got a better title, MJ?

Child molesting, racist, drug-addict: A series of stories.....(sorry, just couldn't resist that one )

You'd have to take it from one of his better know works like The Raven or The Tell-Tale Heart, maybe a play on words involving that:

Tell-Tale Tales?

Flitting: A Series of...