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with this on.All names have been removed to protect the innocent and guilty.I have this "FRIEND" and my friend lent an UNPUBLISHED script (that my friend had been tracking down for 6 years and is still unpublished [I think]) to a person,my friend was very reluctant to hand over the script because my friend was going to do this play quite soon.Now, the person my friend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and so the show would be "fresh" to a metro theatre going public.BUT it has come to my friends attention that this unpublished play is beingput on very, very, very close to the home theatre of my friend, meaning thatmy friend can't do her production.It seems to be a direct "stealing"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
Tue, 6 Apr 1999, 10:58 amWalter Plinge
OK..OK..OK..OK..OK..OKI JUST CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE...............I have spent the whole Easter long long weekend trying to findout what, who and where all you people are talking about. This pussyfooting around is starting to get to me {twitch...twitch}Can someone tell me what is going on, then we can get all the facts and I canwork this thing out once and for all and get some sleep> I'm getting lost with all the pseudonyms - lets just call them> "stupid" and "wanker". Stupid doesn't have standing> to issue an injunction to prevent the Perth performances. All he/she> can do is bitch about "wanker" incessantly. If it was pro> theatre you could argue for an account of profits but even so the> right to produce a play is held by the author/agency. In my limited> experience people are always lending scripts they admire to other> people only to have them turn up in some clubs season for next year> (perhaps Grant can comment on this) The real answer is find another> play and do it so well that wanker is jealous. There are actually> so many great plays screaming to be done that crying over spilt milk> is unnecessary. Call me if you want some good plays.>
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