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- From: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
- To: patents@aful.org
- Subject: Even worse abuses with copyright
- Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 20:32:27 -0400 (EDT)
For all the ancedotal/hallucinogenic complaints about software patents
stopping new software development, here is an example of even worse
abuses with copyright:
New York Times, 21 January 2004
A German theater has been barred from staging Samuel Beckett's
absurdist masterpiece, "Waiting for Godot", with women in two
key roles, Agence France-Presse reported. The reports came from
Beckett's German publishers, S. Fischer Verlag, said Gerhard
Hess, the manager of the theater in Wilhelmshaven in Lower
Saxony, where the play was to have opened on Saturday. "This
manner of defending the holy grail is a bad joke", Mr. Hess
said. He noted that the publishing house explained that its
action was taken out of respect for Beckett's wishes that
women never perform in "Waiting for Godot". Beckett's German
rights expire in 2059, seventy years after his death.
Greg Aharonian
- Even worse abuses with copyright, Gregory Aharonian
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