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Going through permission requests for my upcoming folktale collection. I'd just like to note that publishing permission for the average folktale costs somewhere between $250-400
Folktales are expensive y'all
@TarkabarkaHolgy eeek...
Who gets the money from that? The translators or the publishers or the ... ?
@Printdevil The publishers, likely. I doubt the author of the previous collection gets any?
I usually either work from public domain sources, or from multiple versions of the same folktale. But every once in a while I find one story only from one recent source, and then I need permission.
@TarkabarkaHolgy It's one of those things I'd forget to do and get caught in a total minefield because I'd foolishly have assumed something was PD