I was wondering if anyone knows if there are still copyrights on Poe's poetry or are they now public domain.

you see I wrote a choir piece with the poem 'Alone' and I need to find out if there are copyrights on it or not. So if anyone has any idea, or if they have any idea where I could find out I would greatly appreciate an answer, thank you.

Sincerely, James Sproul jsproul@bc.cc.ca.us

-- Anonymous, November 16, 1999

Answers

As far as I know, the copyright on the works of Edgar Allan Poe have expired due to the amount of time that went by since publication resp. death of the author;

Unfortunately, I do not know exact figures - can anyone help us out?

Please not however, that a publishers copyright on his printed version of Poe's works is still valid - which means that just (photo-)copying and republishing an existing book is still a copyright violation and will always be. Only the _text_ (i.e. intellectual property) itself is free to use ...

I hope this is helpful, Stefan

-- stefan.gmoser@sbg.ac.at, webmaster The Work Of Edgar Allan Poe - http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/

-- Anonymous, November 17, 1999

COPYRIGHTS EXPIRE 75 YEARS AFTER AN AUTHORS DEATH.

-- Anonymous, November 29, 1999

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