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 > >