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my wife has some background in copyright. I'll ask her if she might be able to help

My wife is very familiar with digging up the copyright details on a work. She has expressed willingness to go after this. I'll keep you posted

OK first, confirmation of what Joshua said, Dewitt being the claimant for the 1981 renewal: (Quote from Joshua) ...from the US copyright office: ------- Original Message ------- On Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022 at 7:50 PM, <no-reply@loc.gov> wrote: > Type of Work: Text > > Registration Number / Date: > RE0000141545 / 1982-11-01 > Renewal registration for: A00000127469 / 1954-02-15 > > Title: Epicurus and his philosophy. By Norman Wentworth DeWitt. > > Copyright Claimant: > Norman W. DeWitt (C) > > Vari…

Greenwood Publishing Group Inc. reprinted the book in 1976 and is listed (in the Copyright Clearance Center and elsewhere) as one of two listed publishers of the book, along with University of Minnesota Press, who of course did the original printing. Greenwood's parent company is ABC Clio. Contact info listed for them on their web page: CustomerService@ABC-Clio.com ABC-Clio 147 Castillion Drive Santa Barbara CA 93117 800-368-6868 or 805-968-1911 (open 7-4:30 Pacific) I'm emailing ABC-Clio to see…

ABC Clio directed me to University of Minnesota Pres for help with how to go about getting rights to translate this work. But they also said usually it is a publisher who requests this. Elli and/or Haris Dimitriadis and/or other Epicureans in Greece might want to try to engage some publisher there who might be willing to help out?

Well we'll see if a 2nd hit produces any different result. We would probably have a better standing if we had a Greek publishing entity to work with. Cassius any suggestions on that? Who are our Greek friends that might work on this part of the equation?

(Quote from Cassius) Very well. See you in 2050 or so. We'll be 91 then.

I received this response from U of Minnesota Press: On Thursday, May 12th, 2022 at 12:29 PM, Jeffery Moen <moenx017@umn.edu> wrote: Hello, Your request has been passed along to me. Typically, we work directly with the publisher of the translation, but if that doesn’t apply in this case, then I would need more information about what you intend to do with the translation in terms of distribution, sale, and formats (would you produce a hard copy of the translation, and if so, how many copies would …

Well, this Jeff fellow DOES leave open the door to not requiring a publisher in order to make this happen. UofM Press might just print it themselves. We don't have any interest in making $ off of this venture, we just want the book to exist. But we do need someone to present a proposal for printing off a few copies. I might even try to do that, but do you think Elli, or whoever you have as contacts in Greece, would consider helping out at all? Not to FUND it or anything, just to present their de…