Rights & Permissions

See details for various types of rights below. For purchase or rental of scores, visit here.

Should additional guidance be needed, or for general questions about rights or permissions, please contact us here. 

Note: John Cage’s music is represented by Wise Music Group, which in 2023 became a major shareholder of Cage’s former music publisher, Edition Peters/C.F. Peters. Use the contacts below to inquire about rentals, licensing, reproduction rights, and general permissions.

FOR USE Of CAGE TEXTS:

Contact us at the John Cage Trust here.

For reprints and reproductions of CAge scores, contact Faber Music:

Write to: licensing@fabermusic.com, or use their online portal.

For all other (including novel or particularly gnarly) reprint or reproduction rights questions, contact Marybeth Coscia-Weiss.

For synchronization (use of music in works on film and video):

Write to: us.licensing@wisemusic.com*
*with a cc to: Marybeth Coscia-Weiss: Marybeth.Coscia-Weiss@wisemusic.com

Non-US permissions may wish to use this online portal to make requests through Faber, or email them here.

For grand rights (use of music in works for stage):      

Contact either Marybeth Coscia-Weiss or Iris Torres at Wise Music.

Visual Art Uses, Rights, and Reproductions:

For questions concerning use, rights, and reproductions of all Cage’s visual art works, contact the John Cage Trust here.

For questions specifically about Cage’s visual art works created at the Mountain Lake Workshop, predominantly watercolors, contact Ray Kass, Director, Mountain Lake Workshop. For permission to reproduce images of any of these works contact the John Cage Trust here.

For questions specifically about Cage’s visual art works created at Crown Point Press (prints, etchings, and the like), write to info@crownpoint.com for information about Crown Point Press itself. For permission to reproduce images of any of these works contact the John Cage Trust here.

For all other questions, including gallery and museum loans from the John Cage Trust’s permanent art collection, contact us here.

Literary Works, Uses, Rights, and Reproductions:

For inquiries pertaining to works published and held in copyright by Wesleyan University Press, contact: Suzanna Tamminen, Editor-in-Chief, Wesleyan University Press.

For inquiries involving all other written works by John Cage, contact us here.

Manuscript and Correspondence Rights and Reproductions:

For information about the John Cage Music Manuscript Collection held at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; for further information, contact: Dave McMullin, American Music Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

For information about the John Cage Correspondence Collection, Notations Collection, and Other Relevant Cage Holdings held at the Northwestern University Library; for further information, contact: Greg MacAyeal, Curator of the Music Library, Distinctive Collections, Northwestern University Library.