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Materials created by persons outside the Copland family may in some cases be subject to copyright. In many of these cases, we were unable to identify a possible rights holder and have elected to place some of those items online as an exercise of fair use for strictly non-commercial educational uses. We invite users to contact us with any information they may have particularly with regard to any items indicated as unidentified.
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General Credit for Copland Materials
Correspondence, Writings and Music— Used by permission of the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., copyright owner. For musical works, contact the Business Affairs Department, Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., 35 East 21st Street, New York, NY 10010, fax (212) 358-5305. For all other Copland materials, please email info@coplandfund.org or visit https://coplandfund.org/permissions External.
Photographs - used by permission of The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., 156 Fifth Avenue, Suite 600, New York, New York 10010, phone 212-461-6950. The Fund's permission is limited to the right to reproduce the image of Aaron Copland. All rights to use individual photographs are controlled by the respective owners of the copyrights in those photographs. For those listed as unidentified, we invite users to contact us with any information they may have with regard to those items.
Credits and Rights for Individual Photographs
The rights holders for individual photographers are listed below. For those listed as unidentified, we invite users to contact us with any information they may have with regard to those items.
Credits and Rights for Articles
The following articles are included in this collection with permission as indicated:
