Talk:The Hyborian Age

What is the essay doing here in Wikipedia?

Isn't there another Media Wiki that this essay should be on? This article is not encyclopedic and may even infringe on copyrights as it is. --InformationalAnarchist 03:09, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

• On the subject of copyrights: The article tells us that the text was first published in 2003. This may have been a consequence of the 2002-12-31 cutoff in 17 USC § 303. However, the public domain status of the text must be positively confirmed for something with so recent a publication date. I have not yet found a copy of the text elsewhere than Wikipedia, which to me strongly indicates that it did not enter the public domain in 2003 and is still copyrighted. If you have the book that the text came from, please check its copyright notices. Uncle G 01:39:12, 2005-08-22 (UTC)
  • http://www.robert-e-howard.org/AnotherThought4ws02.html credibly asserts that it's public domain. —Cryptic (talk) 05:51, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
    • It's not a totally credible assertion, given that the list contradicts both this article and Hyborian Age. Both of the articles state that the essay was first published in 2003. That list, however, states that it was first published in 1936, in several instalments. Either one of the statements is false, or there are two different works here. If one of the statements is false, it depends from which one. (If the articles are correct, then the work is still copyrighted.) If there are two different works here, then the list isn't telling us anything about the work that is actually the subject of this article at all. The best source for confirmation would be the 2003 book that contains the essay. The copyright notice in the second "Conan of Cimmeria" book (The Bloody Crown of Conan, whose copyright page is available on Amazon) states that it is "Copyright © 2003 Conan Properties International LLC". Note also that any Robert E. Howard work that falls under "lifetime plus 70 years" rule, which by 17 USC § 303 includes works created but not published before 1978-01-01 such as this one (presuming the articles and the book blurb to be right and the list to be either wrong or talking about something else), will still remain copyrighted until 2006. Uncle G 21:46:23, 2005-08-22 (UTC)

Someone seems to be pushing the recent "pure" volumes as if they are the only versions. Note that the essay on the copyright mentions only part of the essay was originally published in the magazine appearance. It appears twice in the listings of the 1960s books - possible the part previously printed and the remainder. I recall reading a comic adaption of it in the 1970s. Perhaps the 2003 printing is the first of the whole essay as originally written ? -- Beardo 00:08, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Merge?

As it is, this is a fairly short article, so why not merge it with the main Hyborian Age article and have the history of the essay and the summary of the world within all in one location? Spartan198 (talk) 18:20, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Hyborian Age page confusion rectified

I ran this by an administrator months, if not over a year, ago, and never got a reply, but the pages for the universe and the essay were titled very confusingly, so I've taken it upon myself to act and moved the world to The Hyborian Age (fictional universe) and the essay to The Hyborian Age (essay) so as to alleviate this confusion. If I was out of line doing so, I apologize, but I felt it necessary to take the initiative on this issue myself. Spartan198 (talk) 22:49, 26 April 2012 (UTC)