I’d like to adapt a Mississippi writer’s work into a stage play or movie. How do I get permission to do so?
Intellectual property rights are a serious matter about which you should always get expert legal advice. The first step in getting permission is ordinarily to get in touch with the writer whose works you wish to adapt — through the writer’s publisher, agent, or in the case of deceased writers, the executor of the writer’s literary estate. We do not, in most cases, have information about who specifically to get in touch with regarding permissions, though a good first step is to contact the writer’s publisher.
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