I don't know copyright law, but I find it bizarre that quote a couplet or quatrain or some song lines wouldn't be considered fair use.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Mark Kohut <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markekohut@yahoo.com">markekohut@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I don't know music but I do know that "Tangled Up In Blue"</div>
<div>is about Bobby and Joni Mitchell, who did BLUE (an album). </div>
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<div>Joni is one of the toughest protectors of her song lines around. </div>
<div>Almost never gives permission to use.....we all knew that a </div>
<div>couplet (or quatrain) from a Mitchell song was in the reading copy</div>
<div>of Gravity's Rainbow but is not in the published book. </div>
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<div>I know of a whole first printing of a decent novel which a publishing house</div>
<div>had to 'recall", never ship, pulp, because permision for some song lines</div>
<div>were not gotten and she learned and demanded it. </div>
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<div>She's a fierce artist..........</div>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:pynchon-l@waste.org" target="_blank">pynchon-l@waste.org</a><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Sun, July 3, 2011 1:02:04 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Thanks again for Dylan suggestions<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>Joe Allonby wrote: <br><br>"Try "Tangled Up in Blue". It's a nice exercise for the major-sus4-sus2 <br>figure that pops up in a lot of songs and the narrative makes it <br>
easier to remember the lyrics." <br><br>I got hooked on Lennon's "Happy Xmas" which has a similar major <br>-sus4-sus2 pattern and "Tangled up in Blue" will work nicely esp <br>because I learned a lot of those chords already. . cool! <br>
<br><br>"Cool thing about "Hurricane": the opening lines read like stage <br>directions in a play. Present tense. Describing the action of the <br>characters and setting the scene. Pistol
shots ring out...Enter Patty <br>Ballantine from the other hall... It's an interesting technique." <br><br>Huh. . .it is cool just to look at how Dylan sets up the story. <br><br>A lot of times exposition in movies esp bore me to tears <br>
but because I only watch dvds (hate paying 9 bucks in theaters) <br>I have learned the fast forward button with captioning! <br><br>ed</div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>