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Wednesday, September 25, 2002

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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	Wednesday, September 25, 2002 Public domain superheroes reborn in Tom Strong Great piece on the pulp comic characters that appear in the new series of Alan Moore's ~~League of Extraordinary Gentlemen~~ Tom Strong (thanks, Zed) funnybook. These characters, like The Terror and The Fighting Yank, are in the public domain because their original publishers didn't register (or renew, it's unclear) their copyright, which means that they've been granted a new lease on life in Tom Strong. The article segues into a very good discussion of the public domain. This was just Slashdotted, so it might be a little slow, but it's worth the wait. Link Discuss (via /.) posted by Cory Doctorow at 07:17:19 AM permalink \| Other blogs' comments Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: