Inara ,'Serenity'
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People can be really, really stupid. An arts group in San Francisco rehearsed and announced a for-pay live version of "Once More With Feeling".
And didn't bother to ask Fox about the rights.
Hands up, all theater people who wonder what they were smoking.
Alas, it turns out that Fox never grants theatrical rights for this in any case.
Damn. I was planning on going to that thing. The question of rights-getting never crossed my mind; I just assumed that if they were doing it at all, obviously they'd taken care of the necessary copywright and permission issues long before.
Apparently it's mostly a dance troupe -- possibly all of this is different, or not so much an issue, in the world of dance, and all this just never occurred to them?
Maybe. I know it's an issue for Martha Graham dances, because who had the rights was a big deal after her death. And I think it's an issue for Balanchine, too.
Yup. Dances can be protected by copyright. If you're going to dance either Balanchine or Graham, you have to get permission.
So there's really no excuse for the dance troupe, except that (I infer) they're amateurs.
Possibly, because they are dancers, they are clueless about rights and such. Some really small companies think that they'll avoid detection, and are so small that it won't be worth it to go after them, so they don't bother.
and are so small that it won't be worth it to go after them
No such animal. I think Fox has employees whose job is to sift through LiveJournal posts so they can send cease and desist orders to people using screencaps from their shows as icons.
Big article on Watchmen in the latest Entertainment Weekly. Moore speaks!
Someone on scans_daily on LJ is collecting images for an essay on subtle BDSM imagery. I like the sensuality of what they have so far. Pretty stuff.
Can anyone explain "One Year Later" to me? I was reading an interview with Gail Simone that mentioned it in connection with BoP, but I couldn't quite tell what it was all about. Thanks!
The current Infinite Crisis is going to leap ahead a year.
Then they are going to have a one-year mini-series called 52 or 52 weeks that tells the story about what happens in the missing year.
I think.