In less than three weeks, every single book published in 1930 will enter the U.S. public domain.Some notable titles include:>As I Lay Dying>The Maltese Falcon>The 42 Parallel>Strong Poison>The Murder at the Vicarage>Charlie Chan Carries On>A Fighting Man of Mars>Tarzan at the Earth's CoreYou can find more titles here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930_in_literatureSo what will you be reading in January? Last January, I read A Farewell to Arms and The Sound and the Fury to celebrating their becoming public domain, and next January I plan to read As I Lay Dying and The Maltese Falcon.
>>24944474>to celebrating their becoming public domain*celebratefmlAnyway, I’m a bit disappointed at the lack of science fiction in 1930. I have Damon Knight’s collection of science fiction from the 1930s, but the earliest stories are from 1931, so we’ll have to wait until 2027 for those to enter the public domain.
Every book published at any time is already public domain to me, I just steal them all
>>24944474I'll start with 42nd Parallel and the rest of the U.S.A. trilogy
>>24944542Books are cheap. What’s more interesting is that people will soon be free to adapt these works without needing to consult each author’s literary estate. I’m genuinely curious to see if we get any new film adaptations of The Maltese Falcon next year, for example.
>>24944574I would think that production companies that target expired IP are production companies that turn over cheap schlock to make a quick buck.
>>24944657That is often the case, but some IPs lend themselves so well to adaptation (Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, the works of Shakespeare, etc.) that it becomes an inevitably that someone somewhere will make something worthwhile at some point once everyone has legal access to the source material.
>>24944657This desuThose Winnie the Pooh horror flicks from a couple years ago are the quintessential example: the guys that run that production company had a goal of making 100 movies before they turned 30. They managed to do it, but their entire output is bland slop turned around on a production schedule of a month at most.I still kinda respect it despite the low quality though, since they usually hire their actors on 6-week contracts and get them to shoot scenes for 4 different movies all in one volley.
>>24944709They’re like the 21st-century Roger Corman, whose best work, coincidentally, is the public domain: The Little Shop of Horrors (1960).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Little_Shop_of_Horrors_(1960)_by_Roger_Corman.webm
>>24944730I hold out hope that like Corman, they can provide a launching point for the generation-defining talents of tomorrow (like Corman was for Jack Nicholson, James Cameron, et al.)
>>24944574>if we get any new film adaptations of The Maltese Falconi think mickey mouse is public domain now you can have a maltese mickey
