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Steve Coates
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| Posted: 08 September 2025 at 1:13pm | IP Logged | 1
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The following is a very brief summary of very complex state of affairs.
Most of the Tarzan books are in the public domain, so there is a freedom of use about the writings and the characters, but the freedom is not granted by Edgar Rice Burroughs Estate/ERB Inc. And the Edgar Rice Burroughs Estate/ERB Inc. aggressively pressure and intimidate anyone attempting to use the characters or other wise monetize the public domain material.
You can probably find audio on some of the public domain books at the Guttenberg Project.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 08 September 2025 at 2:14pm | IP Logged | 2
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I learned a while back that it’s possible to do Tarzan as long as the name is not on the cover.
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Steve Coates
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| Posted: 08 September 2025 at 2:21pm | IP Logged | 3
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Yes, copyright has expired, but the trademark still stands, which is the basis for the actions Edgar Rice Burroughs Estate/ERB Inc. takes.
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Wallace Sellars
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| Posted: 08 September 2025 at 11:07pm | IP Logged | 4
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I’m currently listening to THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE via Audible.
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Jack Caleb Day
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| Posted: 10 September 2025 at 1:20pm | IP Logged | 5
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Also watched Lord Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan Lord Of The Apes about two days ago. Phenomenal film that I really wish more adaptions of Tarzan would take cues from not.
Not by copying the story or it's alterations from the source material. But by being an intellectual story that explores that psychological impact of the protagonists upbringing.
Edited by Jack Caleb Day on 10 September 2025 at 1:21pm
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 10 September 2025 at 1:45pm | IP Logged | 6
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I’d love to see Burroughs’ version of Tarzan actually brought to the screen. GREYSTOKE was a lot of fun, but still strayed far from the source. And no one has ever given us the Sasquatch-like Great Apes ERB described. The ones who really spoke, and not the ook-ook eek-eek chimps and gorillas that have been around since the first time Elmo Lincoln donned the loincloth. Versions of Tarzan mostly remix the goulash cooked up by previous “adaptations “. Not surprisingly, I suppose, since audiences would barely recognize the genuine article.
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James Best
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| Posted: 18 September 2025 at 9:58pm | IP Logged | 7
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Now starting MIDNIGHT IN EUROPE (2014) by Alan Furst, the 11th book in his long running "Night Soldiers" WWII spy thriller series set in Europe between 1933 - 1943.
There are only two more novels remaining in the series, as Furst has not published anything since 2019. I can only hope that he has now retired and is enjoying his free time in Paris, where a lot of his plotlines intersect.
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James Best
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Now cracking open CLOWN TOWN (2025) by Mick Herron, the ninth novel in his ongoing "Slough House" spy thriller series, which has been adapted as the "Slow Horses" television series on Apple TV+ now prepping for its sixth season.
While I don't watch the TV show, I am a big fan of the books. And with the passing of authors John Le Carre' and Frederick Forsyth, Herron has (in my opinion) now inherited the title as the best British spy novelist in the business.
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Eric Smearman
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Just starting WHICH LIE DID I TELL?:MORE ADVENTURES IN THE
SCREEN TRADE by William Goldman. So far, it's every bit as
entertaining a read as the previous book!
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Robin Taylor
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| Posted: 29 September 2025 at 2:22pm | IP Logged | 10
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I re-picked up Holly by Stephen KIng. I struggled to read it for a long time on Kindle, partially because its a covid/Trump 1.0 book and partially because my concentration fractured over the last 5 years.
My wife and I are trying to abandon as many American stores and services as possible, so we have dropped Amazon amongst others. This lead me back to a bookstore for the first time in decades and it turns out the mechanical progression of a real book is so satisfying that I am all the back into physical books. Now I just need more space
I really like Holly as a character and reading King is like a warm comfortable blanket.
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