We made an independent short of a Twain short this year and all I
know is that so long as it's before a certain date (1923?), it's
public domain. Luckily for us filmmakers (in the opinion of this one
filmmaker) all the more production-friendly stories are before this
magical date. All royalties for other projects I believe are paid to
the Tesla Cryogenics Project, because as every Twainiac knows, if we
can bring back Tesla, Tesla can bring back Twain...
Shameless plug, trailer here: http://www.that-a-way.com/thataplay.htm
Cheers,
Zach Rosenau
6 Springvalley Terrace
Flat 3F1
Edinburgh EH10 4QD
www.that-a-way.com