On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Jonathan Ingram wrote:
--- "D. Starner" <shalesller@writeme.com> wrote:
(I think I know the answer here, but can we get rid of the World Library Editions? We have replacement editions, and if we need more, there's numerous editions of Shakespeare we could use. Say the word, and I'll start scanning new editions of Shakespeare for DP to replace these.)
You won't be able to legally replace the World Library Shakespeare, because many of the source editions are still copyrighted, as Prof. George Lyman Kittredge didn't finish his complete Shakespeare until the 1930's. However, the "life +50" PGs could redo him, as he died in 1941, but the "life +70" and US copyrights are still in force. Kittredge was the best edition of its day, perhaps until the Riverside edition, which is the new standard, and should be kept as the best public domain resource, accoring the advice of most Shakespeare professors I have consulted. It's one thing to add a new version, quite something else to "get rid of" an old one. Not to mention that the World Library was VERY nice to Project Gutenberg in donating this material 10 years ago, when we only were coming up on 100 eBooks. Michael