It must be said

[Mark Kohut]

the publisher i was with in the nineties had to pulp a first printing of a
novel
which had four Joni Mitchell lines as an epigraph and permission was denied
late.....(or rather, the book should not have gone to press before that
rights detail
was locked down).....had not been shipped to stores yet, so there was
that.....no
recall....or suit.

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Joni Mitchell's handlers were/are notorious for refusing rights to her
> lyrics or demanding YUGE amounts for them......
> law for poets and songwriters makes much of the fact that a poem, a song,
> lyrics have so few words usually, 'fair use'
> to quote some of them hardly exists......one can quote a para or two from
> a novel, small proportion but a few lines
> from a small lyric--------infringement.
>
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 6:00 AM, Protomen <protomen at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You may already know the wiki by heart, but for the benefit of those who
>> don't - apparently replaced during galley proofing
>> <http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_617-626#Page_617>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: It must be said
>> Local Time: 12 mars 2016 11:05 AM
>> UTC Time: 12 mars 2016 10:05
>> From: mark.kohut at gmail.com
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>
>> That the page announcing Part 4 of GR
>>
>>
>> *The Counterforce*
>>
>>
>> *What?*
>> *             ---Richard M. Nixon*
>>
>>
>> *is another sublime moment in this American Sublime achievement. *
>>
>>
>> When do we think he 'wrote' this page? Conceived (and added) the Nixon
>> line?
>> I know, pure spec but.....
>>
>>
>>
>
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