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You've never heard of creative license and directorial interpretation? Man, you must have lived a sheltered life!
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If I'm ever famous I'm gonna make sure my dead self becomes public domain. Can't those imbeciles see that they are negating further exposure? Recent movies reviewed Shakespeare and fairytales to modify...
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My money is funding the site and I use Google services. I guess that's what he meant =/
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'play the game i want, in the way i want or i'm taking my ball home'! and this is by supposed adults? pathetic!
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"Why make these "modifications"? What need is there to do so?" Obviously you're an idiot. Ever watch Lord of the Rings? It's different from the book.
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well obviously they took into account the coming zombie apocalyps, once the formerly dead writer/author/musician is zombiefied, he'll have a proper incentive to create more content. Without afterlife...
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As per your article the work was being presented by " LA Gay & Lesbian Center". We can debate the morality of this, and it has been debated by people more knowledgeable and profound than anyone on...
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Reasonable? Depends. Was there some kind of a contract that said that all performances will adhere to the letter of the play? If people chose to accept the contract, they have to abide by it. If so,...
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"If you do not understand the implications of that then you have to go no further than today's world news headlines to see what happens in other parts of the world when such perversions occur." I...
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I've been in a few plays, and there are always little modifications. Lines -- or whole scenes -- are omitted or rearranged; character concepts are altered a little or a lot; stage directions are...
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"Without afterlife IP rights he'd be doomed to hunting for brains like all the rest of us... Now he'll be able to afford to buy them." Fixed that for you
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Wow, this guy can't tell the difference between government and private industry. Can someone please get this man/woman some help?
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Really? Just "seems"?? Like, it seems we could use some stronger language to tell such estates what we think about them?
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I'm going to assume you don't know anything about live theater. Modifications are the norm. I've watched Hamlet 5 times in the past few years and each time it was presented in it's own original ways....
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In a broad sense, plays generally attempt to convince the audience that the action they are witnessing is actually occurring -- that the characters are real people. To accomplish this, the director and...
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Cultural standards are not morals. It's immoral to imply that society or morals are being degraded because people don't fall in step with your personal cultural definitions. Society as a whole suffers...
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"Hey Mike- what was your declarable income from Google-related entities last year?" Hey AC- what was your declarable income from MPAA/RIAA-related entities last year?"
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The unauthorized changes to the play obviously caused harm to Levin. He's dead.
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This happens a lot when theatres want to remove foul language from a play and the playwright refuses. Theatres often just choose to not produce the play. In the theatre world everyone is taught that...
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Levin's estate are most likely anti-gay. The really humorous thing about that is, well, it's a play put on in theater... Think about it.
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Such a contract is required for any work that isn't in the public domain. All changes must be approved by the playwright. Of course, the playwright is dead, so...
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I have to say I agree with the Levin estate on this one. The author purposely did not want to hit audiences over the head with the gay subplot. Obviously, that wasn't enough for the LA Gay &...
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Well, the real irony is that having the LA Gay & Lesbian Center produce this play totally ruins the big surprise that the whole mystery is based on.
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Forget it. He's ignored the actual point of the article and gone off on a rant about morals, the nature of which rant some people would find within itself "immoral". I don't think he's interested in...
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"The author purposely did not want to hit audiences over the head with the gay subplot." Do you have a citation for that? Unless Levin specifically said that, or he left explicit instructions to that...
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just the fact you tied this shows me you have some political motivation to take mmike down and have no legitimate points to bring to the table. ad homs and violence are the refuge of the incompetent.
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What does this have to do with Technology? NOTHING... Is this still techdirt.com?
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...but to the thinking of a large part of religion you have provided sufficient proof that what is really being discussed is moral degradation. Correct me if I am wrong, but don't most religions...
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I remember seeing a fully genderbent Midsummer Night's Dream. IT was the best fo the seven performances I've seen of the play, and each one had radically different approaches.
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I'd make my body Public Domain, too. I cant' wqait to be ogled in my coffin, y'know.
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You mean like the "moral degradation" of children by the Roman Catholic Church, and a clergy that is so disconnected from its laity that it is fighting a losing battle? You mean "moral degradation"...
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No, that makes it legal, not reasonable (As was pointed out in the article). Just because you can do something, doesn't mean that you should.
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Oddly, the interest of plays and things may be exactly in those fraught situations where you have to say it covertly. That gives spark andf tension and a real story. It was written in Granta in 1992...
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It's really just the playwright trying to maintain their stature in a collaborative medium. Your forthright clarity earns you blogspot number one!
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My money is funding the site and I use Google services. I guess that's what he meant =/ Me too...and I am as big of a Google fanboi as most Apple iPhone users are of Apple. Android Rulez!
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If I'm ever famous I'm gonna make sure my dead self becomes public domain. I don't know about making my body public domain, but if there is anything that I have created over the many years I've been...
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'orally superior to you because i have a faith' Christians give better blowjobs?
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Thank you. I feel so honored. But honestly, a playwright is nothing without a director and actors. Calling their input invalid is just pompous. But they don't get to stand on stage and get applauded,...
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Oh yeah, I forgot they made all of the Hobbits gay and Gandalf runs around without pants.
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I was curious about exactly this question awhile back: Why can't directors change (non-PD) plays? A friend who's a director said it's to ensure that theatergoers see the play they bought tickets to...
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@Gwiz:"Correct me if I am wrong, but don't most religions include "tolerance" as a part of their teachings?" The short answer: "No!" Maybe Christianity, but no others. (Consider yourself "corrected")
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"What would change about them between now and the time copyright expires?" He'd be more dead.
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