Xref: utzoo alt.sources.wanted:299 comp.sources.wanted:11603 Path: utzoo!mnetor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sdrc!cinnet!spca6!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: alt.sources.wanted,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Where can I find the complete works of Shakespeare Message-ID: <15084@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 27 Apr 90 15:29:55 GMT References: <1111@mgse.UUCP> <806@vice2utc.chalmers.se> <72@frau.UUCP> <11222@hoptoad.uucp> Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 26 gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: |spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) wrote: |> you must be joking. people who own Shakespeare electronic versions |> sell them, they dont give them away |I hate to tell you, but Shakespeare died a long time ago. His copyright has |expired. All his works are in the public domain, that is, you can copy them |all you want and give them away. I hate to tell you this, but you can copyright your particular version of a public domain work. You can also copyright compilations of public domain works. |> mail archive@uk.ac.ox.vax (Oxford Text Archive) who may have a |> version you could use for research purposes |I love this crud -- "research purposes". Who are they to presume to tell you |what you can do with the words of a man five hundred years dead? Just like people sell Bach sheet music, or Webster sells words, they have every right to tell you that you can't copy their stuff. Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean