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copyright

  • 18-01-2012 10:06AM
    #1
    Fuinseog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭


    could someone please tell me how copyright works if you use a poem in your book, in this case W B Yeats. I found the poem on the net and the man has been dead since 1939 so the copyright has run out?


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  • #2
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    A quick google and it seems AP Watt hold the rights to the WB Yeats estate.

    http://www.apwatt.co.uk/


  • #3
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    70 years after death. So Yeats' work is now public domain in the EU, US and most other countries.

    http://www.mulley.net/2010/01/01/w-b-yeats-works-fall-out-of-copyright-today/


  • #4
    Fuinseog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    Orion wrote: »
    70 years after death. So Yeats' work is now public domain in the EU, US and most other countries.

    http://www.mulley.net/2010/01/01/w-b-yeats-works-fall-out-of-copyright-today/

    thanks for that guys. Apparently with Yeats his poems written before 1923 are in the public domain.


  • #5
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,084 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    What would be the cut-off date for poems like The Second Coming which was published a few times with a few changes in the text? Does the copyright apply to the first issue or republications?


  • #6
    Ahbegob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭Ahbegob


    Copyright is 70 years from year of person's death or of date of published work- whatever is later. If someone wrote a book in 1900 and died same year then the work may be reproduced 70 years later. If the work is modified say in 1910 by say a different author then the modified text is copyrighted for 70 years.

    Basically, you have no problem reprinting Robinson Crusoe but you shouldn't scan and reprint a Robinson Crusoe book published within 70- years in case the publisher corrected typos, changed headings, modernised words etc- in this case you would be infringing their copyright.

    M


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