From the daily archives: Thursday, July 16, 2009

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

By Rufus Pollock On July 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

2/10. Terrible. The film is a disaster on every level: a tedious, uninvolving and occassionally laughable plot is married to an unhappy mixture of the non-existent and the cliched characterisation, and then rounded off with dialogue of the utmost banality. Even the presence of a stellar cast (how were they persuaded to get involved?) cannot [...]

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Size of the Public Domain II

By Rufus Pollock On July 16, 2009 · 2 Comments

This follows up my previous post. Here we are going to calculation public domain numbers based directly on authorial birth/death date information rather than on guesstimated weightings. We’re going to focus on the Cambridge University Library (CUL) data we used previously.

Pub. DateTotalNo AuthorAny DateDeath Date 1870-1880505646634 (13%)23016 (45%)21876 (43%) 1880-1890668578225 (12%)31135 (46%)28570 (42%) [...]
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