Mastodawn

sdw Mar 13, 2024

I found out today that Dune (the actual book from 1966) is available copyright-free from Archive dot org as an ePub / PDF for digital reading (https://archive.org/details/dune-saga-collection/Dune%20Saga%20Collection/Brian%20Herbert/House%20Atreides%20%28278%29/House%20Atreides%20-%20Brian%20Herbert/), and I naturally went on a hunt for the nicest cover to add it to Apple Books.

There’s a LOT of awesome Dune cover art! Here's a fantastic history on Dune art through the years: https://t.co/khptGz4Pbi

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not a martian, honest Mar 14, 2024

@sdw I would very much doubt this is copyright free. Just because someone put it on there doesn't mean it doesn't have copyright (especially as it also has Brian Herbert's books and he is still alive...)

But a lot of archive.org works on the law of obscurity: is it really illegal if nobody cares about it?

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Brad R

@kyonshi @sdw This was my thought too... the copyright on Brian's stuff definitely hasn't expired because he's still alive... are there any #lawyers here that could clarify how the copyright works on the original six books?