Publishers Weekly, June 8th, 1992
Frank Baum's children's classic, The Wizard of Oz, is a book for the ages; a valuable commercial asset, a book that continues to be bought in various editions throughout the world, it earns considerable sums of money. Ironically, because the book is in the public domain, anyone can publish it; Frank Baum's heirs share in none of the money accured from the various editions of the book. As H. P. Killough points out in The Beginning Creator's Copyright Manual, the most recent change to U.S. copyright law is an improvement: the new law changed the duration of a copyright under it to the creator's...
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