I want to write a school musical adaptation of oliver twist. dickens is dead, so who owns the book r

it's just a very small, local high school performance that i'm writing for. i wanted to write a short musical for a program that i'm sponsoring and oliver twist seems like a good story to adapt into a short musical (probably a one-act). there have been several productions based off of oliver twist though dickens has been dead for 137 years. i was wondering if i have to have permission from whoever owns the rights to the book (and DOES anyone own the rights to the book?).

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lordvader

I want to write a school musical adaptation of oliver twist. dickens is dead, so who owns the book rights?plays

You may need to be careful though, as there is already a musical play based on that story, "Oliver".

I want to write a school musical adaptation of oliver twist. dickens is dead, so who owns the book rights?opera ticket opera theater

The copyright to Dickens' work goes on for 50 years after his death. After that, it is in the public domain and you can go nuts.|||No, it should be in public domain now. If you use direct lines from the book, I would double check to make sure that all oliver twist publishers use those exact lines- though the story is in free domain, the translation or publication of that particular book is copywrited. Of course it's in english, all oliver twists should be the same, and not special copywrite on any part of it, but if you were doing one on dante's inferno- though the story isn't copywrited anymore, the translations would be.

I want to write a school musical adaptation of oliver twist. dickens is dead, so who owns the book r

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