Just came across this video entitled "Why Everybody Wins If Batman & Superman Are Public Domain". It ties in with some of what I've been saying.
Take public domain characters or books and rewrite them or spin them or whatever and they stay in the publics eye. Many people read or watch these spin offs and want to read the original story so they are up to date with what inspired the book or movie.
Makes sense, right? I watched The Raven on YouTube and then watched The Simpsons do a show using the story. I reread the original and, finding it hard to read because of the way books were written long ago, I retold the story in modern language and then ended up reading two more Poe tales and spinning all three in my own book.
I've received emails from some readers thanking me for turning them onto the classics and they told me they were reading more of Poe's tales and asked if I'd be modernizing them as well.
There are loads of books and movies and art that should not be forgotten and when we bring these public domain masterpieces into the new generation of readers, we keep them alive and possibly fire up the juices in the readers and they do the same.
Everyone Wins.
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