On Aug 23, 2007, at 8:08 AM, David W. Fenton wrote:
What about a public-domain poem published in a critical edition that is itself under copyright, such as a Norton anthology? Is it not the case that the particular variant spellings and line breaks and so forth might make it prudent (if not strictly required) that you seek permission from the publisher of the edition?
Absolutely. And the workaround, as someone else mentioned, is to find a PD version of the work and start with that. That is what Harry Partch did w. _Oedipus_, for example.
Another point worth mentioning is that if you go back to the original PD source of something old, and make your own editorial clean-up of the piece, you are not in violation of any other edition's copyright even if your editorial decisions turn out to be identical to theirs. Of course, you might be asked to *prove* that the similarity was coincidental, wh. gets a bit dicey...
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