Index talk:Tarzan and the Lost Empire.pdf

1962

This edition was published in 1962, but without notice. We can still use it, but do we have any notes that we ought to make? SDudley (talk) 18:20, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Hmm. Would it be okay if I just changed the title to 1962 edition and made a note of that? SurprisedMewtwoFace (talk) 21:44, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

@SDudley Just to clarify, are you saying that you believe this work is PD, and just uploaded with the wrong PD tag (on Commons)? Or are you saying the PD tag is incorrect? It would be nice to know before starting transclusion. Thanks for checking either way.

@SurprisedMewtwoFace, good to see you are back. In your absence, I briefly had a look for scans of The Tarzan Twins and Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, but didn't have much luck finding anything (pre-1930). Did you have the same issue with them, and/or Tarzan and the Lost Empire? If scans can't be found for the previous two instalments of the series, and you were interested in working on them, we might be able to source some with a kindly message at User:TE(æ)A,ea./Requests. No guarantees though. Regards, TeysaKarlov (talk) 04:00, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, this is actually the 1962 Ace edition of Tarzan and the Lost Empire. It does NOT have a copyright on it because it was a reprint of the 1929 version of Tarzan and the Lost Empire and was published WITHOUT a copyright notice. It does not have a copyright notice because it was published by Ace when they mistakenly thought the older Tarzan books were already in the public domain, and they were later sued by Burroughs' estate to remove the books from circulation because they were still under copyright at the time. Since this book was published without a copyright notice in 1962, its copyright was never renewed or claimed because the Burroughs estate sued, AND because the original 1929 text of the book is now public domain, this book is indeed public domain. I would recommend it for transclusion, as I have had tremendous difficulties finding the original 1929 edition. For more information on the Ace Tarzan editions, look at this site. https://ripjaggerdojo.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-unauthorized-tarzan-ace-books.html

P.S. I have an edition of Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle. It is indexed and can be found here: Index:Tarzan Lord of the Jungle (1928).djvu Thank you for your help in this endeavor!SurprisedMewtwoFace (talk) 04:45, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

We have {{reprint license}} if you want to be specific. Transcluding this edition is, of course, fine having multiple editions is fine at WS. MarkLSteadman (talk) 14:22, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks so much! SurprisedMewtwoFace (talk) 14:47, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Okay, I corrected the license on Wikimedia Commons to make it more specific to this version. It can be found here:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tarzan_and_the_Lost_Empire.pdf#%7B%7Bint%3Alicense-header%7D%7D

This should clear up any remaining confusion about this edition. Hope this was helpful! SurprisedMewtwoFace (talk) 15:21, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

@SurprisedMewtwoFace I am not sure if you just meant "me" in your post on the Scriptorium (regarding "some people" or "one user"), but I never actually said that I thought the work was in copyright. My question was focused on what PD-tag to use. But you can also hardly say that the copyright for this index was straightforward, so you can hopefully forgive me my confusions (I had to read your explanation a couple of times, but I think I get what happened in the end). I will start transcluding. Also, for future reference, you can just ping me in the same conversation, rather than bringing things to the Scriptorium, if you prefer. Thanks for all your efforts, and sorry if my question caused any concern. Regards, TeysaKarlov (talk) 22:13, 22 February 2025 (UTC)