[THE_EPISTLE] copyrights

[schwartzboiko at ADELPHIA.NET]

--For what its worth - as I recall the Bond books were sold individually, most to the Brocolli and his partner at the time (whose name I can't remember and am too lazy to look up right now) and 2 to others.  The 2 others were "Casino Royale" and "Thunderball".  A deal was made for "Thunderball" and that became the 4th Bond movie.  "Casino Royale" was produced as a TV drama in the '50s on US television with Bond as an American and Leiter as British.  Then it became a comedy in the '60s.  The rights to "Thunderball" must have reverted to the original owner after the original movie.  That allowed it to be remade as "Never Say Never Again".
marty schwartz

schwartzboiko at adelphia.net

---- Debora <debora_gale at LIBERO.IT> wrote:
> Public domain... Copyrights... Rights owner... Etc... What an interesting argument! I read in 1983 there was the war of bonds, a battle between Roger Moore and Sean Connery: the official Octopussy VS the unofficial Never say never again. And I read the rights battle was more exciting then the two movies (personally i saw the 2 movies in DVD and I prefer Roger's Octopussy).
> Was the Val Kilmer movie endorsed by Saint Club? There is not reference to Charteris in the credits.
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> Debora
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>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Martin Schwartz
>   To: THEEPISTLE at OGHAM.ORG
>   Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 8:15 PM
>   Subject: [THE_EPISTLE] copyrights
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>   Lupin is public domain.  Holmes is public domain tho' some publishers
>   still pay for authorization from the descendants.  In the US, some of
>   the oldest Charteris stories may be out of copyright tho Charteris, as I
>   recall, and Ian can answer this better than I, was so scrupulous about
>   maintaining his rights, that a way may have been found around this.  In
>   any event, the stick figure is a trademark and, if reprinted in recent
>   editions of the canon, might be renewable indefinitely, along with the
>   name, "The Saint".
>   I say this because I was involved last year in reproducing a radio play
>   of the old "Superman" radio series at the LA branch of the Museum of
>   Broadcasting.  The name "Superman" could be used but other names, like
>   "Clark Kent", had to be changed.  Go figure.