tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041437999194031830.post5301299988172844778..comments2023-05-20T04:17:12.313-07:00Comments on My life with the critters: Please stop this thief!Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08231007979360748217noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041437999194031830.post-20752056162338323772015-07-28T19:45:57.488-07:002015-07-28T19:45:57.488-07:00 Well yes, modern altered reproductions run rampan... Well yes, modern altered reproductions run rampant. Thank you for the answer.... Now I know how that is legally allowed!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041437999194031830.post-10743561758128631982015-07-28T19:21:45.760-07:002015-07-28T19:21:45.760-07:00Hi Wendy. To answer your question - copyrights ev...Hi Wendy. To answer your question - copyrights eventually expire (the exact length of time depends on the country, and involves either the date of publication and/or the date of death of the author, plus anything from about 50 - 100 years), so the poem to which you refer has been in the public domain for many years, and can be edited and published by anyone without payment to author or the author's descendents. However, as is the case with Ms. McColl's edition in which the lines regarding smoking were edited out, the publication itself still gives credit to the original author. In fact, many different publishers have re-issued A visit from St Nicholas, with very slight variations, new illustrations, and even a new title (Twas the Night Before Christmas)! In one case it is mice who are visited by Santa at night, not children. <br />In 2012, Ms. McColl chose to edit out two lines regarding smoking in keeping with the standards she sees as appropriate for children today. In fact, her edition (which clearly indicates on the cover that the poem was written by Clement Clarke Moore - the original author), also states right on the cover "Edited by Santa Clause for the benefit of children of the 21st century". <br />Any awards this book (and other editions) may have received will have been based on the total package - the illustrations, the editing, the look of the book, not the original storyline. (I believe it is a pop up version put out by another publisher that won several awards and is selling like hotcakes on amazon. <br />The library association that spoke out against it did so on the basis of its own anti-censorship stance - which begs the question: What is censorship and what is editing? <br />The re-telling of classics whose copyrights have expired, with considerable editing, is very common. That's how I fell in love with the book Les Miserables - by reading a much edited version of it in Grade Seven, called Jean Val Jean. It's also why Walt Disney Ltd can bring out so many classic children's tales, significantly altered, that become bigger hits than the original - but if you read the credits, you'll see the original author credited as well as all their own editors, publishers, illustrators etc. The new version then becomes copyright to that company, but that doesn't stop others from bringing out their own book or film based on the original story but with different illustrations, edits, etc. I am sure Victor Hugo, who wrote Les Miserables, would hardly have recognized his story in the on-stage musical version I saw last year. <br /><br />If someone wants to make posters out of my photos a hundred years from now, I won't object, and they won't have to pay me a thing. But they will STILL have to give credit to my work by indicating the source of the image! <br /><br />And if I had an editor for this blog, I'm sure she/he would shorten this response considerably. LOL<br /> Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08231007979360748217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041437999194031830.post-17469293606799511302015-07-28T17:42:04.651-07:002015-07-28T17:42:04.651-07:00hi Jean, sorry to hear this is happening.. tried t...hi Jean, sorry to hear this is happening.. tried to sign, but this 'style' of petition doesn't register my signature unfortunately.<br />On the subject of exploiting others art...I know someone (a publisher) who took a famous (perhaps most famous) christmas poem/story (over 200 years old.. and removed 2 lines.. that are about Santa lighting his pipe and smoking it.. ( author doesn't like smoking message) The american library assoc. barred it (the censored version) but the book has won all kinds of awards & is a top seller on amazon..<br />Go figure.. I shake my head and wonder how that is legally allowed?<br />WendyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041437999194031830.post-38121564851236067742015-07-21T23:23:27.644-07:002015-07-21T23:23:27.644-07:00Petition signed, pathetic people who think they ca...Petition signed, pathetic people who think they can just take others art and use it for nothing.<br /><br /><br />Donna BAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041437999194031830.post-79879847992034389392015-07-21T23:22:31.986-07:002015-07-21T23:22:31.986-07:00I'm in, Jean. Signed as well.
barbI'm in, Jean. Signed as well.<br />barbbarbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13468501207290204463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041437999194031830.post-37437610615493656062015-07-21T16:28:37.278-07:002015-07-21T16:28:37.278-07:00Done, seems a lot of people have had art stolen fr...Done, seems a lot of people have had art stolen from them by these guys, very sleezy to say the least.Kate D.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041437999194031830.post-1346264379066029912015-07-21T14:26:59.731-07:002015-07-21T14:26:59.731-07:00Signed as well.
ElseSigned as well.<br /><br />ElseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041437999194031830.post-39692699768674305292015-07-20T07:25:03.746-07:002015-07-20T07:25:03.746-07:00Hi Jean.
You could always try to email the web si...Hi Jean.<br /><br />You could always try to email the web site host server company Their email address is:<br /><br />abuse@tldregistrarsolutions.com<br /><br />You may not get much of a response as they are based in Nassau, Bahamas.<br /><br />It's worth trying though especially if you start giving them bad publicity.Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041437999194031830.post-7228305501896268912015-07-19T19:27:50.394-07:002015-07-19T19:27:50.394-07:00SIGNED! With pleasure!!SIGNED! With pleasure!!King and The Royalsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041437999194031830.post-12866539306072155112015-07-19T08:41:49.163-07:002015-07-19T08:41:49.163-07:00Done. Hope it makes a difference Done. Hope it makes a difference CarolineAnoreply@blogger.com