HIT: Wizard of Oz and coyright

[Nancy Voltmer <voltmer@NETINS.NET>]

        My original posting was regarding the Wizard of Oz book. The music teacher
wants to have a performance using excerpts from the book (narrator) and his
students will sing the parts/story. He wanted to know if there would be a
copyright violation.
        Below is a response I received; I have more questions to ask when visiting
the teacher. (As a P.S. the teacher did tell me this week that he has
purchased some of the music already for school and therefore has the rights
to use that.)
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"Well, the ORIGINAL Wizard of Oz is in the public domain because it was
published before 1923. Baum died in 1919, so there is no way that
anything published in his lifetime would be protected. That being said,
there are all sorts of adaptations of the original. THOSE may be
protected by copyright. So is the motion picture, the music from the
motion picture, etc. So there is a LOT of information that needs to be
collected before a determination can be given."
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Nancy Voltmer                           voltmer@netins.net
Teacher-Librarian
Hiatt Middle School
Des Moines, Iowa

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