Who would have owned the rights had the speaches *not* been re-edited? I can
see that by making a re-edited selection, the Trust obtained the rights in
the selection, but who owned the rights in the material selected? The Trust
did, surely? But I am probably missing something; if so what is it?
 
My reason for enquiring is to know.
 
Richard Edwards
 
 
>From: Alexander Schmitz <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
>  <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Doob
>Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 09:07:00 +0100
>
>Matthew, Jonathan,
>
>I have these things at least once before:
>
>1) Transcripts of 177 EP radio broadcasts, 468 pages covering Oct 2 thru
>July 26,
>1943 were available as early as 1945 a) from the Library of Congress and b)
>a
>little later from the National Archives and Records Service, Washington,
>DC, for
>exactly $93,60.
>
>Doob is specialist for psychological warfare and was, later,
>working/traveling
>for the CIA. Mary/The Pound Literary Property Trust asked Doob to re-edit
>the
>speeches in order to get the rights for the Trust. This had become
>necessary - to
>avoid reprinting & quoting (from) the speeches by other authors FOR FREE.
>The
>Trust wanted them to pay for what they quote.
>
>2) The 2nd, however more immediate, reason for asking Doob to re-edit the
>speeches was the publication of a 1975 book, "Certain Radio Speeeches of
>Ezra
>Pound", edited by William Levy, for Cold Turkey Press, Rotterdam including
>the
>wonderful (??) copyright note: "Copyright c 1975 for Ezra Pound, his heirs
>and
>concubines."
>
>3) Doob, as can be proved, held back 58 speeches, and it's pretty likely
>that he
>did so in order manipulate his statistical analysis (pp 417 ff).
>
>alex
 
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