User:SnowyCinema/Speculative transcriptions

Forget the user page rules; anyone can edit this page.

Imagine we lived in an alternate world where copyright did not exist as it does now. Maybe all published works are freely-licensed, period, or maybe in this world the cutoff date is different (if Sonny Bono never happened, 2024-29=1995 or 2024-57=1967), or maybe we don't have to come up with a specific scenario.

In any case, if Wikisource had more modern works that we could transcribe, I'm curious to see what kinds of works we might be working on. Everything is on the table—books, movies, video games, radio, music, TV shows, comics...

Please list below what works you'd be working on today and sign your username to them, if it hadn't been for the copyright they have in our reality:

List

Print (books, etc.)

The Greek Tragedy in New Translations, from Oxford Univ. Press (1970s) --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:17, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, by E. G. Withycombe (1945 / 1977) --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:19, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
1984, by George Orwell (1949) — Alien333 (what I did & why I did it wrong) 18:35, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien (1977) — Alien333 (what I did & why I did it wrong) 16:55, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Patricia C. Wrede (1985–1995), including Judith Mitchell's illustrations for the first edition of Talking to Dragons —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 04:12, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
A History of Western Philosophy — by Bertrand Russell. Cremastra (talk) 22:23, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Flying Saucers have Landed - Leslie Diamond & George Adamaski. (1953)
The entire Discworld series.

Speeches

I Have a Dream, by MLK, Jr. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:43, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
..From the Baltic to Adriatic.. Winston Churchill. -- ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 07:20, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Video games

An exhaustive compilation of Bioware RPG scripts. Ostrea (talk) 16:39, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Film/TV

Duckman (1994–1997), one of the first adult cartoons SnowyCinema (talk) 15:28, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Forensic Files (1996–2012), true crime TV series SnowyCinema (talk) 15:28, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003–2010), TV series debunking pseudoscience and certain political views SnowyCinema (talk) 15:28, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
The Day the Universe Changed (1985) — History of science. Cremastra (talk) 22:21, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Eyes on the Prize(1987-1990) - Influential historical documentary on the Civil Rights movement. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 16:54, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Music/radio

"War of the Worlds" Mercury Theatre in The Air - Script. (1938) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 07:20, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
"Dimension X" and X Minus One (1950's) - Scripts. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 07:20, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
"Dragnet" (OTR Radio show) Scripts ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 07:20, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
"Lights Out" (OTR Radio show)- Scripts ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 07:20, 17 April 2024 (UTC)