[LM_NET] TARGET: copyright question with Winnie-the-Pooh

[Jean Hanigan <jhanigan01@EARTHLINK.NET>]

The Director of Elementary Education from my school district just called me with a 
copyright question and I'm hoping you can help me out with this:

The scenario:  We are opening a new school next fall and there is going to be a 
stone placed out front with something engraved in it.  Someone at the district 
administrative level came up with the idea to have the illustration from the book 
Pooh Goes Visiting by A.A. Milne and illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.  The 
illustration is of Christopher Robin reading to Pooh, who is stuck in the hole of 
Rabbit's house.  The Director knows that the district will need permission to have 
that illustration engraved and asked me to look into it.  I'm not sure how to go 
about this.  Do we contact the publisher (Dutton Children's Books)?  I think the 
Winnie-the-Pooh books are still under copyright protection.

Thanks for any help you can give me (and my school district) on this!

Jean Hanigan, MLS
Librarian
Shawsville Elementary School
Elliston, VA  24087
jhanigan01@earthlink.net 

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