Review: Using Copyrighted Materials and Editing from Two Top Websites
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
This book is selling what has been offered for free on the web by two fairy tale websites for over 16 years, some of the stories are even copyrighted to D. L. Ashliman since they are his recent translations although he offers them for free on this site, including The Little Broomstick and The Little Nut Twig. But they are his translations to profit from, not someone else.Many of the other tales are offered for free on my own site, SurLaLune Fairy Tales, as alternative versions of Beauty and the Beast. They are out of copyright and free game, but this book essentially took all of the work of gathering and introducing from two well-known and respected sites and packaged it here--rather poorly--for personal profit. I call foul!There are other more comprehensive and helpful compilations available that don't try to profit off the hard work of authorities who have shared these tales for free to all readers on the web for years and years. Free doesn't mean out of copyright.