Originally Posted by
fortinian
Researchwriter, remember that not all of Tom Slemens stories are bull****, some of them have a genuine basis in truth before the Arse-Sorryteller (sorry, Arch-Storyteller) gets his sensationalizing hands upon them.
One of his tales mentioned a UFO in in North Liverpool years ago, my mother who was only a child then but she maintains that her and my aunt saw something similar to what Slemen described.
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As it was a general event and people like my mother are still alive and probably remember it I cannot see why he would have any copyright or assosiated claims over the story. I mean, it's not like he had copyright worries when he pillaged Wittington-Egans books for his first few publications.
Fortinian, I couldn't possibly comment on whether Mr. Slemen's stories were embellished or not but, if I was to use his work as a source and there were details of it which had not previously appeared elsewhere, that is where (I believe) the copyright issue would come in. I have no doubt that there are plenty of people out there who have witnessed some of things he has described and, of course, their testimony would not be under his copyright. To be honest, my book is already going to be called Haunted Liverpool (since all of Tempus Publishing's books in this series are called Haunted [insert city or town name here]) so I want to try to steer clear of Mr. Slemen's work as much as is possible.
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