[grc] Storytelling copyright guidelines

[Spencer Graves]

On 3/21/23 5:48 PM, al davis via grc wrote:
> 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.


Thanks.  That's great to know.  And even if what you say does not happen 
to be the case in any particular instance, the real copyright owner 
would have a hard time getting much from a lawsuit over it, especially 
from a nonprofit that is not charging a separate fee for that particular 
content.  Spencer

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