| re: Spielberg's WEST SIDE STORY - first look at the Jets and Sharks | |
| Posted by: ryhog 03:14 pm EDT 06/17/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Spielberg's WEST SIDE STORY - first look at the Jets and Sharks - Chromolume 01:39 pm EDT 06/17/19 | |
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| I agree of course that a score can be arranged to death, but my sense/hope is that that is not what's planned here. We shall see. Obviously, Kushner is going to do SOMETHING, and the score will need to be adjusted to accommodate whatever that turns out to be. Again, we shall see. The "iconic question" seems to have blended with the copyright thread. :-) Which is not a bad thing. I took the "iconic" comment to be a semantic one (can a sound be an icon? its ordinary usage connotes an image). But this segues toward the other thread too: you can copyright an "icon" that you can see/read but not an "idea." (Putting this in a musical context, I wonder if anyone has ever been found to have infringed an improvisation that was never written down (not that uncommon, obviously) or recorded. For all I (don't know), there could be a famous case on this.) And to take the staircase subject a step further, who would "own" its use in Dolly? The key here is that using a staircase is not an original idea, and neither is using it for a grand entrance. Sometimes it is useful to think about IP issues in relation to tangible terms: if I want to sue you for stealing my fiddle, the first step is to conclusively prove that I owned the fiddle. |
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