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   Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág (tarkabarkaholgy@ohai.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 17:55:51 JST Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág

   Going through permission requests for my upcoming folktale collection. I'd just like to note that publishing permission for the average folktale costs somewhere between $250-400

   Folktales are expensive y'all

   #folklore #folktales #publishing

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     Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág (tarkabarkaholgy@ohai.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 17:56:33 JST Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág

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     • Charnock

     @Printdevil The publishers, likely. I doubt the author of the previous collection gets any?

     I usually either work from public domain sources, or from multiple versions of the same folktale. But every once in a while I find one story only from one recent source, and then I need permission.

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     Charnock (printdevil@dice.camp)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 17:56:34 JST Charnock

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     @TarkabarkaHolgy eeek...

     Who gets the money from that? The translators or the publishers or the ... ?

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     Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág (tarkabarkaholgy@ohai.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 17:57:00 JST Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág

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     • Robin Palotai

     @robinp @Printdevil That is how it works in Hunagry with Hungarian folktales, yes. But if someone writes their own version of the story, that is subject to copyright. Also, translators still have rights too as far as I know. And laws are different in other countries.

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     Robin Palotai (robinp@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 17:57:02 JST Robin Palotai

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     @TarkabarkaHolgy @Printdevil sounds interesting. IANAL, but I would have thought the definition of a folk tale is that it is some kind of common knowledge (thus no copyright).

     Being put into a collection should not change that (now the collection itself has copyright protection, so if you take multiple folk-tales from the collection, that is protected, but I would have thought not a single individual). Interesting question.

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     Robin Palotai (robinp@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 17:57:12 JST Robin Palotai

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     @TarkabarkaHolgy @Printdevil slightly off-topic, but mentioning Hungarian folktales: I'm starting to realize what is available as "stock" folktales is kind of a safe tip of the iceberg. Downloading Benedek Elek's "Magyar mese és mondavilág" from the electronic library, part 2 and 3 has some truly weird stuff in there. But was it a more fair sampling of the time, which we just filtered down to remove disturbing stuff?