On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, cris cheek wrote:
> Jo Shapcott's experience. We were in the same room when she
> told us of how Chadwyck Healey have recently bought up the
> back-catalogue of Oxford University Press (for example, there
> are others). Jo has (she assured us) now lost the rights
> to poems in those books of hers published by OUP to date.
> In other words, if someone wants to use one of her poems,
> they don't ask her for permission - they ask CH.
- copyright hat again: Jo had copyright on her poems from the moment she
wrote 'em. She MAY HAVE signed over to OUP, who may then have signed 'em
to CH, Sony or Ronald MacDonald. Or she MAY HAVE signed over to CH
directly, tho, as I say, this wasn't the Bunting experience. She CAN'T
have lost the rights on her poems other than by signing them away herself.
Incidentally, she still has copyright on her unpublished drafts n
fragments, so she could at a pinch launch a new career based on those...
Moral: make sure you keep control of your two pennyworth. Or be prepared
to have to write a whole lot more.
RC
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