- Jane laPlante <laplante[_at_]warp6.cs.misu.nodak.edu>
wrote:
> Dear listmembers,
>
> 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. So far I have been unsuccessful in tracking
> down the authorship of
> these doggerel style poems. My question for the
> list is: 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?
>
Do you have any idea how old the poems are? If they
were created over 120 years ago, they are in the
public domain in the U.S. Anonymous works receive a
copyright term of 95 years from the date of first
publication or 12 from the date of creation, whichever
comes first.
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Received on Wed Sep 25 2002 - 05:18:58 GMT