Drama Aesthetics and Criticism text - request for help

[Craig Walker]

Hello folks,

There is a process by which you can apply to the Copyright Board for a
licence in the case that copyright owner is not locatable.  I don't know how
fast the process is, but help and advice with the process would be available
through the university library.   Here's the brochure the Copyright Board
has available. 

http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/unlocatable-introuvables/index-e.html

All the best,

Craig Walker
Head and Professor
Department of Drama
Queen's University

From:  Stephen Johnson <stephen.johnson at UTORONTO.CA>
Reply-To:  Stephen Johnson <stephen.johnson at UTORONTO.CA>
Date:  Friday, 8 August, 2014 9:47 AM
To:  <CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA>
Subject:  Re: Drama Aesthetics and Criticism text - request for help

>From Moira Day <moira.day at usask.ca>
Subject: Re: Drama Aesthetics and Criticism text - request for help

Hi everyone,

I've just had a problem come up with less than a month to go before the term
begins, and any help or advice people could give me would be welcome.

For years I used Bernard Dukore's *From the Greeks to Grotowski* text to
teach my 400 level course in Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Even when the
book went out of print, I was for any years able to get permission from the
press to print the relevant excerpts from the text. This year, - I just
found out today - for the first time, none of the presses originally
affiliated with the book, claim to have the copyright for it or its extracts
anymore, or know who has it. (And our copyright centre checked this out with
5 different presses before turning to the author.) The author has said he
doesn't know who would have it now either, but if he could see which
excerpts were involved he can probably tell us where we need to write to get
individual permission to use them. But with less than a month before the
class start, this would probably take too long to do.

If anyone else has encountered a similar situation and has had experience
solving it quickly, please let me know. The advantage of the original text
was that it was very comprehensive, going from the classical through to the
contemporary period, it gave abstracts of the actual texts rather than just
summaries, and many of the abstracts were short but very helpful. The older
selections between the Greeks and the 19th century were particularly useful
in teaching a survey course. I don't know if there would be a similar text
still in print that would be a good substitute for this one - or how
difficult it would be to track down the original readings in a different
medium. Our copyright person suggesting checking electronic sources - but at
least on a first glance, there don't seem to be e-books of the original text
available either.

As mentioned, any help or advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks, and have a good summer.

Moira Day
Dept. of Drama
University of Saskatchewan
Canada



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