posted on Jun, 7 2008 @ 04:36 AM
Huh...
You know I was going to write that I think you would be fine in this case but I guess I may be wrong, Usually copyright law only extends 70 years past
an authors death (in Lovecraft's case March 15th 1937) but it seems that there is some confusion regarding any sort of renewal of copyright in this
case...
here is this very same discussion from another board...
They reference
this wiki page and reading it is rather vague... It
appears that if anyone owns the copyrights, it is Arkham House, but there is some question as to whether they actually own them as well.
It appears that the RPG manufacturer Chaosium owns a few lovecraft terms and phrases including "the call of Cthulhu" But the wiki goes on to say
that Lovecraft himself was all for people continuing his work...
I don't know... Considering you can go to
this website and read all of his works,
I'm going to say that whatever copyright is claimed isn't exactly ironclad...
I'd say go ahead and write what you want man, chances are no one will come after you if it is just a personal project, if you want to publish it just
check with a publisher, I'm sure they have legal departments for this kinda stuff...
Best of luck, I'd love to read what you come up with.