Help needed with Ethical question
Wed, 31 Mar 1999, 01:18 pmWalter Plinge20 posts in thread
Help needed with Ethical question
Wed, 31 Mar 1999, 01:18 pmCan anyone please help with this on.All names have been removed to protect the innocent and guilty.I have this "FRIEND" and my friend lent an UNPUBLISHED script (that my friend had been tracking down for 6 years and is still unpublished [I think]) to a person,my friend was very reluctant to hand over the script because my friend was going to do this play quite soon.Now, the person my friend lent the script to said that they were going to do the show ONLY in the country as not to take away audience and so the show would be "fresh" to a metro theatre going public.BUT it has come to my friends attention that this unpublished play is beingput on very, very, very close to the home theatre of my friend, meaning thatmy friend can't do her production.It seems to be a direct "stealing" of audienceis my friend just stupid for lending the script or does she have a genuinereason to complain. is there anything my friend can do ?A. Friend
Re: Help needed with Ethical question
Wed, 31 Mar 1999, 06:26 pmWalter Plinge
I just want to make sure I follow what's going on, as the original message wasn't too clear:As I understand it, Jane Doe had a copy of an unpublished script, which she had been hunting for six years, and was intending to produce the play in question. Before Jane got the chance to produce the play, Mary Smith asked to borrow Jane's script. Jane was reluctant to lend the script since she had been chasing it for so long and was intending to produce it in the very near future.Jane lent her script to Mary Smith on an assurance from Mary that Mary was intending to stage a production at a country venue - well away from Jane's home theatre. However, it now transpires that Mary has reneged on this assurance, and is presenting the play in Jane's immediate area.Well, I don't know if anything CAN be done. It would be interesting to hear Mary's reasons for poaching in Jane's home grounds, particularly when Jane was nice enough to lend Mary the script in the first place. Has Jane approached Mary? Has Mary returned the original script?True, Mary may have eventually found a copy of the script without Jane's help and staged the production anyway. That would simply have been a case of bad luck for Jane. The problem here is that Mary promised not to impinge on Jane's proposed production, in order to get Jane's script as quickly as possible, then simply ignored Jane's request.Unfortunately, it seems as though Jane has learnt a nasty lesson the hard way. It's a pity to think that there are some people that you can't trust with your script or intentions.
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