Re: Copyright of Choreography

On Wed, 7 May 1997, Vance R. Koven <vrkoven[_at_]world.std.com> wrote:
>
> This is somewhat similar to the situation of the song "Tarrant Moss" by
> Charles Ives, setting a poem by Rudyard Kipling. When Ives self-published
> his "114 Songs" in 1922 he hadn't received the requested permission from
> Kipling, so he published just the music, with only the first three words
> of the text (a pretty safe fair use, one would think).

For a more recent example, the 1989 Kate Bush song "The Sensual World" was inspired by, and initially included as lyrics, the Molly Bloom monologue from James Joyce's "Ulysses." Joyce's estate, however, refused permission for the work to be used in the song, and Bush had to rewrite the lyrics prior to release.

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