a question for Mr. King regarding fairuse

[burntusa]

i am a unsigned solo songwriter and i am beginning work on a album while in the middle of reading the Talisman for about the 20th time. when I started writing the words, they infused themselves with themes from the book. I wonder if I don't actually quote the book, but merely borrow ideas from it is that considered a copywrite issue or is it perfectly ok? I would love to have permission to finish this as planned, but with no email address to check this forum is the best i can do. the album will be like my other projects, given away freely on the internet, so there won't be any monetary gain, i really just like to write songs and record them and give them away. i did a simular thing a couple years back with the novels of Japanese author Haruki Murakami, but never heard back from him either. my timeline on this is to have the whole thing done by the end of september.

[Moderator]

As long as you're not using any of the text from the book, you should be fine.

[GNTLGNT]

Good luck bunky!!!