Talk:The Feeling of Power

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Per Wikipedia:Copyrights I have removed the link to the full text of the work. If it were something like Project Gutenberg we could obviously presume they were respecting copyright but I've looked through the website and I couldn't find any real evidence the site respects copyright, I couldn't even find any mention of copyright. I believe this work was first published in 1958 in the US, so if it had not be renewed then it would be public domain but there's no real evidence that is the case nor that the website hosting it is even aware of such details or considered them. I've left in the link to the other site, although it does link to a different full text version. Interesting enough, this one does in fact claim the story is copyrighted but doesn't provide any information they have permission to host it or have even considered such matters. (I'm not surprised, many people think it's short/I said it's copyrighted/it's old; so it's okay but of course that's not true.) Nil Einne (talk) 09:00, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Given Asimov's own very professional approach to the rights and publications of his works, his use of professional agents, and his continuing asset value to his book publishers, I'd be astonished if any of his works, apart perhaps from casual squibs donated to 'worthy causes', had fallen out of copyright unnecessarily.

Specific to this story, my 1994 reprint of the VGSF (Victor Gollancz) 1988 paperback edition of Robot Dreams, which contains it, states in part on the verso "all stories copyright © 1986 by Isaac Asimov", so evidently his copyright was reasserted. (Incidentally, p475 of that volume mentions that the story was originally "copyright was © 1957 by Quinn Publishing Co. Inc. for If Magazine".) {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.200.137.12 (talk) 15:23, 19 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]