It's also already been deused.

Well, that raises some interesting copyright questions. A quick perusal of Wikipedia did not make it clear how the copyright stands. Pretty strong argument that it went PD in 1980, regardless of wider distribution.

    By modern standards, it was copyright as soon as it was "penned". The standard of the day required an explicit claim of copyright or it was PD by default. Three paths, all lead to PD no later than 1980. The university that published it in 2010 could only claim copyright to their derivative work, I'd think.

    Hmm. Now I'm very curious.

That's 2, maybe 3 novels without counting waiting-in-airports time. Each way.

But then, I just noticed your username. Maybe no links was more fitting.

No links? What kind of pseudo-self-promotion is this?

Others have made the point that the first three are best. I'd go farther, the later ones, that are basically different perspectives on the first group, are probably very uninteresting out of that context.

The man died in 1910. How could his autobiography not be public domain?

You got me all excited thinking Crickett had a kid's shotgun. Tease.

My daughter loves her Pink Crickett. Although, US law does require that, technically, I own it until she's 21.

Um, circular logic there. What you're saying is that people who use a service designed to help optimize the revenue stream tend to be developers looking to optimize the revenue stream.

Um, sticky bit?

Um, ghosting these drives then reporting them destroyed might just be punishable as treason.

I'm thinking that cable-companies and/or local stations showing regional ads during national broadcasts might qualify as prior-art.

That abomination has nothing to do with the real Norton Ghost. Any Norton product that runs in Windows sucks. It's a simple rule to follow.

Wow! the incomprehensibility of that first sentence hurts. It really does.

Try googling "The Fifth Imperium".