Talk:Home on Lagrange (The L5 Song)

Request to Remove Song Lyrics, and Declaration of Interest

The revision of 4 May 2015 added four of the six verses of "Home on Lagrange" to this article. These lyrics are copyrighted. Permission was not granted by the authors of the song.

I request that the song lyrics be removed. Please consider volunteering to perform this edit.

Declaration of interest: I am a co-author of the lyrics to "Home on Lagrange." The song is copyright 1977 by William S. Higgins and Barry D. Gehm in the United States. The authors have no objection if the article links to sites with authorized copies of the song, such as the James Oberg site linked in the current version. Beamjockey (talk) 00:05, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Further references:

Another authorized copy of the song may be found in the magazine L5 News.^[1]

Information about the song, and an authorized copy of the lyrics, may be found in The Visioneers by W. Patrick McCray.^[2]

Beamjockey (talk) 00:07, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Higgins, William S.; Gehm, Barry D. (July 1979). "Home on Lagrange (The L5 Song)" (PDF). L5 News. 4 (5): 3. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
^ McCray, W. Patrick (2012). The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future. Princeton University Press. p. 94. OCLC 788266380. Retrieved 2016-04-11.

[L5News-1] Higgins, William S.; Gehm, Barry D. (July 1979). "Home on Lagrange (The L5 Song)" (PDF). L5 News. 4 (5): 3. Retrieved 2016-04-11.

[Visioneers-2] McCray, W. Patrick (2012). The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future. Princeton University Press. p. 94. OCLC 788266380. Retrieved 2016-04-11.

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