At 10:44 AM -0400 8/22/07, Stu McIntire wrote:
I would appreciate someone pointing me to a resource that tells how best to
go about getting permission to set a published poem to music, with the
expectation that the resulting piece will be performed and published
eventually, even if just by me.
Thanks, all -
Stu
Very simple, really. Anything published before 1923 is in the public
domain (in the U.S.), and may be used freely by anyone. It belongs
to all of us. Anything published after that is probably still under
copyright, meaning that it belongs to the copyright owner, and you
must ask permission to use it, and pay whatever fee or royalty the
copyright owner asks or not use it. You need a contract spelling
that out in writing before any publisher will even consider what you
have written.
(I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice!)
John
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John R. Howell
Virginia Tech Department of Music
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240
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http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
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