1. you may not necessarily have to get permission from other contributors - depends what the original copyright was. However, it's highly likely that you will. And, more to the point, it's morally correct that you do. 2. You don't need any permission as far as tunes subsequently published elsewhere goes 3. How you imburse contributors is between you and the contributors: if you decide you want to offer them royalties that's between you and them and would be a conventional way of going about things. But it's not "statutory". From a publisher's point of view, you might decide that a one-off fee would be better. Though, from a publisher's point of view, that'd be a bad decision, as the book is unlikely to be selling by the truck-load. From a publisher's point of view, you'd want other contributors to let you use their tunes for free, because they liked and respected Duncan so much. 4. Yes, accumulating a reserve would be a nice thing to do. By the way, here's a link to a great way to go about re-publishing out-of-print books: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/927369773/the-complete-uncle-by-jp-martin-and-quentin-blake
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