The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #124661   Message #2755450
Posted By: Artful Codger
30-Oct-09 - 02:52 AM
Thread Name: New song with old lyrics - protocols?
Subject: RE: New song with old lyrics - protocols?
And to be quite sure, base your variant on a copy of the poem published earlier than 1923, such as the book Jim Dixon referred to. If you use/reprint a text from a later source, it may contain differences in wording, punctuation or typography which are identifiably those of a later, still-copyrighted publication or variant. This precaution may be overkill, but better safe than sued.