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Two lawyers are still fighting to keep Buck Rogers from entering the public domain, something which should have begun 70 years after the author's death. Philip Nowlan, the stories' author, died in 1940 and so his works should have joined the public domain starting 2010. Part of the strategy from the copyright trolls has been to drag out the process with multiple lawsuits.
Back in October 2015 we brought you the story of the Buck Rogers Copyright Trolls, two lawyers who were fighting to keep Buck Rogers from entering the public domain using the discredited Sherlock Holmes system of licensing. Two and a half years later, Louise Geer and Dan Herman are still at it, using every trick in the book to keep a beloved tale out of the public domain, where it firmly belongs. Along the way the pair have stiffed multiple law firms, and currently are abusing a Bankruptcy Court in Pennsylvania in a Hail Mary effort to...well, it's not exactly clear what they're trying to do.
From Boing Boing : The continuing saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @02:14PM (1 child)
It's book Rogers [gutenberg.org] and not Buck Rogers which was the name of the comic strip?
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday July 02 2018, @10:50PM
Well, actually in the books, IIRC, his name was Anthony Rodgers.
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