Anonymous poems

Jane la Plante wrote,

>> I am a librarian working with a professor who wants to include two
>> anonymous poems in a book he is writing. His publisher edited the
poems
>> out of his text because he doesn't have copyright permission to use
>> them....If a work is anonymous and hasn't been published, and a
>> concerted effort has been made to determine ownership, how great a
risk
>> would it be to reprint it in a published book?

IANAL and don't know the answer to your question, but I'm curious:

If the poems have never been published, where did the professor find them? How did copies of them come into his possession?

--Dodi Schultz Received on Tue Sep 24 2002 - 16:10:53 GMT