[grc] Storytelling copyright guidelines

[al davis]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:05:50 -0500
Spencer Graves via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:
> Do you also ask the authors or descendants if they 
> own the copyright?  If not, you could get in trouble if one of your 
> contacts says "yes", but forget that they've assigned the copyright to a 
> publisher.

Perhaps, but it is as safe as anything else you could do.  The copyright
page in the book tells you who was the owner at that time.  Also, most
assignments to publisher have a license back clause to the author to
facilitate things like this.