It's August. Summer has gone far too quickly. I have so much writing to get done while it's still summer. All of the projects I've been working on are far behind schedule - I am going to have to buckle down right about now.
It's August. I submitted a permissions request for a set of poems last year in about June - I intended to use them for Andrea's song cycle. They told me the process would take between 8-10 weeks. By this time last year I was already expecting to hear a response. After my emails received responses but not action, by the time September rolled around, I gave up on getting the rights, so I tossed the poems aside.
Today, my parents received a 6 page contract from the publisher detailing their claim to performance and publications rights and my rights and this and that! Long story short, I'm glad I didn't wait for the response. There is a huge variation in the restrictions of a permissions agreement- sometimes they want just a token fee and you can use it like you want [One of the poems I used was this case], sometimes they only want a percentage of the profit you make [for art music, this is possibly the best], but the worst case scenario is that they want both money upfront and a cut of your profit. Although I will read it over for details, this publisher wants one-hundred pounds upfront and then 50% of any profit made owing to the use of that text.
In conclusion 8-10 weeks equals 10-14 months!
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