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Re: Phileas Fogg alive and well in Malaysia

From: Gillian <gillian1023~at~yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:58:00 -0400 (EDT)
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Let's just say "It's not Rocket Science". :P

Harry Hayfield <harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com> wrote: How on earth did you know that??? Yes, I was going to involve Doctor Who in the variarant of "To the Moon and Back!".
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Sent: 15 September 2007 2:43 pm
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Subject: Re: Phileas Fogg alive and well in Malaysia


  As to question 1...sure you can film it...isn't it public domain?
  As to question 2...I don't think 17th century Welsh Druids would have been expelled to India. If so, then they'd probably be the ones who would need rescuing. To make the production more fun and family oriented, why not have Dr. Who come down in his tardis to rescue everyone? Much more exciting. :)
  
Harry Hayfield <harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com> wrote:
    BODY { MARGIN-TOP: 25px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 25px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica } P.msoNormal { MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; COLOR: #ffffcc; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica, "Times New Roman" } LI.msoNormal { MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; COLOR: #ffffcc; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica, "Times New Roman" } Unlikely">In a blog from a Malaysian located at http://idamsdh.multiply.com/ it mentioned that she was involved in a school production of Around the World in Eighty Days and this raises an interesting question. I'm a member of a theatre group here in Wales and in 2005 we did "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, but it had been adapated by John "Rumpole of the Bailey" Mortimer. One day, I forgot where I had put the book and so printed off the words from an online version of A Christmas Carol and found to my amazement that they were the same (i.e Mr. Mortimer had copied the work word for word and
 just turned into a play). This got me thinking and so I would like to know the answers to the following questions:
  1) If I turned "Around the World in Eighty Days" into a play in the same manner, would the group who are unable to film copyrighted works be able to film the production?
  2) Having turned it into a play, could I change the whole sutee incident (as the group play to a family audience) to being rescued from a tribe of Welsh druids expelled from Wales in the mid 17th century?
Received on Sat 15 Sep 2007 - 18:58:07 IDT

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