Comments on: Carol Birch – Talking about Copyright issues. http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/2007/07/23/carol-birch-copyright/ Interviewing the best of the Storytelling Community. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:42:51 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Harvey Heilbrun http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/2007/07/23/carol-birch-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-157175 Harvey Heilbrun Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:16:52 +0000 http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/?p=45#comment-157175 In the podcast you related a story about a story by Judith Gorog, Those Three Wishes, which you adapted with Judith's permission and then Judith then worked off of your version. Where does that leave other storytellers that wants to tell that story? Who do we request permission from? Both versions are published. Yours in Ready to Tell Tales (which seems to give permission) and Judith's original version in A Taste For Quiet. In the podcast you related a story about a story by Judith Gorog, Those Three Wishes, which you adapted with Judith’s permission and then Judith then worked off of your version.
Where does that leave other storytellers that wants to tell that story? Who do we request permission from? Both versions are published. Yours in Ready to Tell Tales (which seems to give permission) and Judith’s original version in A Taste For Quiet.

]]> By: Tim http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/2007/07/23/carol-birch-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-157174 Tim Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:53:53 +0000 http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/?p=45#comment-157174 Just to clarify a point that was not made in your interview: when you seek to use copyrighted material, you are asking for a license to use it, not to extend the copyright or to copyright it yourself. I wonder, if "performance rights" are an issue for some literary houses, that asking for a license to create a "derivative work" (akin to writing a theatrical version) might make more sense. By the way, an invaluable source for understanding copyright, "fair use," and the public domain can be found at Stanford University's web site: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/ And copyright only applies to the tangible form of a work: a script, a text, a video, a recording. A storyteller cannot copyright a story until it appears in published form (a website counts) such as a recording. And, at the time of this post, any works published in the United States before 1923 are past their "copyright expiration date," and are in the public domain, so you are free to tell them, modify them, remix and/or record them. Just to clarify a point that was not made in your interview: when you seek to use copyrighted material, you are asking for a license to use it, not to extend the copyright or to copyright it yourself.
I wonder, if “performance rights” are an issue for some literary houses, that asking for a license to create a “derivative work” (akin to writing a theatrical version) might make more sense.

By the way, an invaluable source for understanding copyright, “fair use,” and the public domain can be found at Stanford University’s web site: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

And copyright only applies to the tangible form of a work: a script, a text, a video, a recording. A storyteller cannot copyright a story until it appears in published form (a website counts) such as a recording.

And, at the time of this post, any works published in the United States before 1923 are past their “copyright expiration date,” and are in the public domain, so you are free to tell them, modify them, remix and/or record them.

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