Thank you for that reply, Jane, clarifying the year limit. I would still
like to hear from someone about the rest of my initial query, but let me
rephrase it slightly.

Who holds the copyright to ep's work? I.e., who does one write to for
permission?

I imagine they (Ezra Pound Literary Property Trust, or ?) are generous
with permission for scholarly citation, but how are they likely to
respond to use in a work of fiction, where the citations may be much
more extensive and innocent of quote marks and documentation?

Wayne







Jane Morrison wrote:
>
>         Copyright law is complicated, is constantly changing, and varies by
> country. The U.S. law was changed a few years ago and now provides 95-year
> coverage from first publication. The cutoff date is, I believe, 1923; that
> is, everything published before 1923 is now in the public domain.
>         There are two excellent websites that deal with copyright
> questions.
>         The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress:
> http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
>         British copyright law:
> http://ahds.ac.uk/bkgd/copyrightfaq.html
>
> Cheers.
> Paul Montgomery
> Lausanne, Switzerland