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Amazing that the covers wouldn't have existed if infinite copyright existed just a few centuries earlier.
by rgc4 15y ago
Amazing that the covers wouldn't have existed if infinite copyright existed just a few centuries earlier.
- tzs 15y agoThat's rather insulting to O'Reilly's artists. Do you really think that if they could not have copied those images they used on the first few books, they could not have mustered the skill to draw animals themselves?
- blahedo 15y agoI'm sure they could have. But would they? The story would have at least played out differently if that initial conversation had gone, "hey, let's pay someone to painstakingly draw animals and then transfer them to scratchboard" rather than "hey, look at these gorgeous woodcuts".
- edie 15y agoWe now go to the original sources of the old engravings (we have a big library of old books full of them), and we also have a few illustrators who are able to work in that style. When we started out, we had no money for high-end illustrations; luckily the animal images I chose for the series were in the public domain. Fortuitous.
- turkeysandwich 15y agoWhat, are you implying that infinite copyright exists now? Because copyright now is lifetime plus 70 years.
- EvilTerran 15y agoThere's a pretty solid pattern of late of it being extended at the same rate as the passage of time, so it might as well be infinite.