I'm no lawyer, but I would hold that "fair use" allows for snippets of a
work to be "quoted" in another work OF ART. A composer should be free to
"lift" a few bars from another composer's work, for example.  This license
is tacit. Damn the torpedos.
Tim Romano



----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Pounds" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 2:04 AM
Subject: Re: copywrite restraints


> 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
>
>