Hello,

I consider The Mark Twain Project
http://www.marktwainproject.org/homepage.html
as the academic and most legitimate site. Is this correct?

Thank you,

Charles Cogar

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alan Kitty
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 3:53 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Who/What is The Official Website of Mark Twain

Its clearly not intended as an academic resource. Use of likeness rights =
may have been purchased by CMG. If this is the case, they might simply =
require a letter asking permission. Personally I think they just want to =
sell posters. But why not simply ask them? Once you learn what they =
control, or think they control, you can proceed to validate their =
claims.=20

On Nov 11, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Andrew Beahrs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I say posers=3D85and possibly illegally so.  I noticed that they =
include =3D
> the following faux quote, which is the kind of thing you see =
attributed =3D
> to Twain on Facebook=3D85hard to imagine that the legit estate would 
> =3D=

> feature it.
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> "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things =
that =3D
> you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. 
> =
=3D
> Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. 
> =3D=

> Explore. Dream. Discover."
>=20
>=20
>=20
> On Nov 11, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> 
>=3D
> wrote:
>=20
>> The site claims to represent the estate of Mark Twain and controls =
all
>> use of his likeness, etc. for business purposes.
>> http://www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/index.php
>> =3D20
>> Given that almost all of his work is in public domain, what do they 
>> actually control.  Are they, in fact, just posers.  The site is not 
>> particularly impressive as web sites go.
>> =3D20
>> I am curious because I've developed a audio/video book of "A =3D
> Connecticut
>> Yankee in King Arthur's Court" on a 32GB flash drive that I'm hoping 
>> =
=3D
> to
>> market.  It contains an icon of a rather well worn photo of Twain.  =
As
>> far as I know, all my materials are public domain

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