Talk:Paris in the Twentieth Century

message: Shouldn't this book be in the public domain like other works of Verne are? I couldn't find it on any online Verne library. 193.171.121.30 18:18, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Short version: The earliest version of the story (i.e. Verne's original manuscript) is public domain. The newly released editions and their translations may be copyrighted. Call me cynic, but I doubt the verbatim original manuscript text is available to the public in any form, public domain or not. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 22:44, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Public Domain? 

message: The first concept of a fax machine was 1851, so it predated this book by a few years.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tthackrey (talk • contribs) 18:16, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Fax Machine' 

message: I think the characterization of the Louvre's centerpiece in Verne's novel as "geometric" and "modern" is inaccurate. Verne wrote:
"... Are there sculptors, at least? None whatsoever, ever since they planted the Muse of Industry right in the middle of the Louvre courtyard: a vigorous shrew crouching over some sort of cylinder, holding a viaduct on her knees, pumping with one hand, working a bellows with the other, a necklace of little locomotives around her neck, and a lightning rod in her chignon!"
This bears little resemblance to the modern abstract pyramid, and the suggestion that it does is misleading.
Cfscare (talk) 22:55, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've yanked both those sections, they were totally unreferenced and as bad as those lists of things Star Trek "predicted" get. Wow, Verne read about inventions and imagined ways they could be more widely applied and was right about some of them. Herr Gruber (talk) 07:58, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Louvre centerpiece 

message: He didn't freeze to death.  He merely collapsed in the snow (last line of the book)
TheKurgan (talk) 17:10, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for spoiling the story. Why else do you think someone would collapse in the snow? (WP Editor 2011 (talk) 00:52, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Exhaustion? Collapsing can just mean fainting. Herr Gruber (talk) 07:58, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michel Freezing to death 

message: I don't known why this book is still not in public domain. Could You explain it more? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_length_based_on_publication_and_creation_dates states that this is in public domain, even in USA or UK.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.68.103.25 (talk) 12:31, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: If you wanted to be sure, you should have looked at a more accurate and authoritative source than Wikipedia. Copyright is based on the year of first publication if the work was unpublished during the life of the author. Since this was only published a few years ago, the copyright is still going. (WP Editor 2011 (talk) 00:55, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The public domain date 

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