I would like to hear a brief overview of copywrite restraints on using ep letters, poems, and essays in a work of fiction/drama/etc. Is it correct to think that anything of ep's published 70 years ago is now in the public domain? If so, would it be correct to base my calculation on the original date of publication rather than on the date of some current edition of the work (cantos, essays, shorter poems)? For work that is clearly not in the public domain, would the copywrite holders be likely to be generous? I suppose it would be helpful for me to be more concrete. Let's imagine a fictionalized biography, something like a novelization of Pound's life that would require a lot of his own language. What are the copywrite considerations likely to be? Many thanks. Wayne Pounds