If you can ever find one of those ACE unauthorized editions I'd say that's worth a goldmine. This was mostly because a publisher by the name of ACE books was able to make an unauthorized edition and sell it in the US.
As such it makes the LOTR situation different, not only that but Tolkien and his publisher in the US actually screwed up the copyright filings for the first book, and he had to actually go back and edit his text with corrections and additions so he could refile it and gain copyright. Note that the US law is Life+70 (now) But it was not when the original works were published. Regardless how much we Americans like to think it does. I won't go too deep into that except to simply state the world does not revolve around the US in all things. (In other words foreign companies/authors/creators can get ripped off the moment a State owned Chinese company wants to make use of it) Also the reason you've never heard of that is because you're 1) young. China is in there too, but heh copyright? what copyright? Their's is LIfe+50 for only 'citizen's' works. Likewise in France it's French law, etc, etc, etc.
So even though Tolkien was from the UK it's US law that is important and when it was registered, NOT UK law. It's also important to note that Copyright only matters in the country you're in. However, countries are able to make it longer if they wish. The Life + 50 comes from TRIPS agreement which established a universal minimum of Life + 50 years. If that were true there would be SO MANY films, television shows, books, and other things in the public domain right now. I've never heard anything like that before. I'm pretty sure you're pulling that 50 years thing out of your rear. How could it be? You might be able to say that if WB owned CA and by extension the TW games as this would inspire people to go out and get the TW to run the mod, but since that is not the case it leaves nothing for WB to gain. So in 9 or so years this will be a moot discussion. IP generally lasts 50 years after the author's death and then it's done.
Was a lot of push to try to get it in Shogun.Īlso Tolkien died in 73. Think Donkey Kong (modder that ran the original mod in MTW 2) though pretty much ruled it out for any other total wars because of the huge amount of effort involved. It's free advertising, and they aren't charging. That was during the actual movies and releases, they didn't stop them then, they probably won't stop them now. Originally posted by cniht:They made an LOTR mod for MTW 2.
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