History lesson/ Blog 2

History Lesson: The book Frankenstein was published in 1818 for the first time anonymously by Mary Shelly in limited run of 500 copies of each volume. It wasn't till the second publication that Mary Shelly's name was put on the cover and acknowledges her as the author of the book after heavily editing the book to make it have more action. She got the idea from a dream she had were she had to write the best horror story she could and she came up with the idea that a man creates something and it grows destroys him. The book is one of the earliest known examples of science fiction even though I consider it more of a horror novel with a couple science fiction elements. There is also a common misconception that the name of the monster is Frankenstein, but no it is only referred to as the monster in both the book and the movie. Also \the book it self is now in the public domain  but not the movie and the reason being is that the copy right on the movie is from 1931 and Universal renewed it some time in the past but it extended the copyright till 2026to make it copyrighted for another 25 years or so after the in initial 70 your allowed when you copyright it, but the book it self has become public domain because it was made before 1923 and anything before is automatically in the public domain. So that is how I am going to end this update on what I have learned from background research.