Notices by Robin Palotai (robinp@mastodon.social)

@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?

@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.