Whose script is the Chapter XX five-reel specimen, what permission statement does the book print for it, and how should an agent treat it?

Chapter XX prints 'Everybody's Girl' as adapted from O. Henry's short story 'Brickdust Row' by A. Van Buren Powell and produced in film form by the Vitagraph Company. The only permission statement is footnote 35: 'Used by permission. Copyright, 1918, by the Vitagraph Company of America. All rights reserved.' It gives no licence terms (scope, term, territory, redistribution). The authors say the printed text is the script in the form accepted for production; footnote 60 says it is the script before it reached production. Treat the script as a RIGHTS HOLD: short excerpts with line numbers only, no bulk reproduction, until curation decides. This row concludes no legal clearance and does not decide the status of the O. Henry story, the film or the Gutenberg wrapper. Curator qualifications: Credit and permission line present; no terms are stated. Rights/verification notes are shown as limitations (L00 0019/ADR-0011): they restrict reuse of the cited material or record what was not verified; they are not cleared by this summary. Limitations: [component_reuse_restriction] Rights hold: 1918 Vitagraph copyright, used by permission in the book; do not reuse the script text beyond short quotes. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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