High School does Alien as a play
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They probably found out after. What really gets me is that there are amazing works done around the country all the time, but a fan based ripoff is what gets the attention.
Rob
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It seems Ridley Scott, Sigourney Weaver and James Cameron were pretty happy with it all. I don’t think there will be any blow back. Quite the opposite in fact; Ridley Scott is funding an encore performance.
https://nerdist.com/article/high-school-production-of-alien-xenomorph-realistic/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Nerdist&utm_content=High School Production of ALIEN Is Insane
https://nerdist.com/article/high-school-production-of-alien-xenomorph-realistic/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Nerdist&utm_content=High School Production of ALIEN Is Insane
What Rigger?
I'm so fly....I Neverland.
Well, there you have it, folks. I say good for them, let 'em have this. "Everybody gets one."-Spider Man
And thus begins the age of ripoffs. This doesn't hurt the big corporations, but it will definitely hurt the smaller productions.
In the US, at least, copyrights have no such requirement, broadly speaking. It might perhaps enter into the discussion of damages in other cases, but not whether infringement occurs or not.
A more interesting question might be exactly whose rights were being infringed. Clearly Disney would hold the copyrights to the film clips used, but it's hardly obvious to me that they (and not, say, the writers of the screenplay) would hold grand rights to stage adaptations of the screenplay. Similarly, the grand rights to the music and maybe to the soundtrack recording may be held by someone else. Obtaining all the required clearances to make a legal, non-infringing stage adaptation could well be a very daunting task indeed...but of course that's no reason to ignore them.
Not to mention the set, costume, and prop designs. I find it doubly disturbing that Ridley Scott says that he wants to fund an encore performance.
In other news, Sigourney says hey.
https://ew.com/movies/2019/04/27/alien-the-play-sigourney-weaver/
https://ew.com/movies/2019/04/27/alien-the-play-sigourney-weaver/
Has anyone seen anything from Disney/Fox and their opinion on this? I have only seen stuff from Ridley Scott and Sigourney Weaver (who are not official representatives).
Give The Mouse a couple years to compose the music and it'll be on Broadway as the follow up to Lion King... with Julie Taymor as the alien.
Jay Ashworth
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I expect the rightsholders went on vacation unexpectedly in the Bahamas when the news broke, so they could avoid having to be a$$holes in public.
I heard Ja Rule is still interested in putting on a festival.... just sayin'I expect the rightsholders went on vacation unexpectedly in the Bahamas when the news broke, so they could avoid having to be a$$holes in public.
Nice article by Stage Directions on this production.
