But, to my question. The title is from a Dylan Thomas poem,
"A Refusal to
Mourn a Child's Death by Fire" (think that's it). Exactly ten
years later
(1979), Robert Cormier--a pretty good author in his own
right--used the
title for a novel in which a school bus full of kids are held
as hostages
(if memory serves). His novel acknowledges the Dylan Thomas
estate's
permission to quote from the poem.
Though my Carroll & Graf edition of the novel is dated
1994, it shows that
Block copyrighted the book in 1969. So, help me out. Doesn't
copyright
cover the title too? Or is it a matter of the DT Estate
owning that phrase
from the poem, and so they can authorize a second use of
it?
Just wondering.
Bill Hagen
<billha@ionet.net>
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