News: Marshall going from 'Doomsday' to 'Conan'?

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[ciNe-taRium]

Maybe there is more than one Conan movie in the works, as Howard's works are all public domain, this is more than possible, and you never know, with more than one production, someone HAS to get it right!
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[perplexigon]

Since when are they all public domain? I thought Conan was still under copyright.

[punisher5150]

I'm pretty sure the Conan stories ARE NOT public domain. They are owned by Conan Properties and the Howard Estate. Hopefully this movie will follow Howard's character. I'm a huge fan of the first Arnold flick, but it wasn't quite REH's Conan. Still, I would liked to have seen that John Milius King Conan script get a chance.

Anyway, I hope Millenium Films and Lionsgate give us a Conan movie that will kickstart a new franchise. Good news for REH fans, there is a Solomon Kane movie in the works as well.

[ciNe-taRium]

Isn't it life plus 70 years?
Howard died in 1936...

[ciNe-taRium]

Sorry that's just in the UK...
"In the United Kingdom, 70 years after the death of an author his works fall into the public domain and as such the works of Robert E. Howard have now fallen into the public domain there."

[ciNe-taRium]

Copyright and trademark dispute

The name Conan and the names of Robert E. Howard's other principal characters are claimed as trademarked by Paradox Entertainment of Stockholm, Sweden, through its US subsidiary Paradox Entertainment Inc. Paradox copyrights stories written by other authors under license from Conan Properties Inc.

However, since Robert E. Howard published his Conan stories at a time when the date of publication was the marker (1923 through 1963), any new owners failed to renew them to maintain the copyrights.[12] The exact status of all of Howard's Conan works are in question.[13]

The Australian site of Project Gutenberg has many Robert E. Howard stories, including several Conan stories.[14] This indicates that, in their opinion, the stories are free from copyright and may be used by anyone, at least under Australian law, which was 50 years from author's death until 2005. Subsequent stories written by other authors are subject to the copyright laws of the relevant time.

In the United Kingdom, 70 years after the death of an author his works fall into the public domain and as such the works of Robert E. Howard have now fallen into the public domain there.