Re: Thirteen Scripters Scripting
Re: Thirteen Scripters Scripting
- Subject: Re: Thirteen Scripters Scripting
- From: "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:27:09 +0000
Paul Berkowitz wrote on Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:26:59 -0800:
>On 12/27/08 5:13 AM, "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden>
>wrote:
>
>> In
>> England, we spread "gold" over two notes rather than singing "golden"
>...
>
>> It was mentioned in a quiz show on the telly over Christmas that while
>> most of this song is traditional, the "Five gold rings" line is
>copyrighted!
>
>Hmmmm. A way around the copyright presents itself as long as you don't mind
>too much being taken for a crass Americanizer...
>
>So singers of the whole song have to request permission of the
>copyright-holders to sing the song due to the inclusion of the copyrighted
>line? Or only people who who would choose to display, sing or trinoidally
>chant the single line on its own? I can't imagine that too many people not
>wishing to advertise whatever it is that the copyrighters own (a chain of
>trashy jewellery shops?) would want to go around spouting just that one line
>anyway. AppleScripters had better beware errors resulting in rather more
>than the usual consequences, though. ;-)
;-)
I imagine it's only a problem when the song's sung (or reproduced) for a
fee and includes that line. If I'd been more awake when QI was on, I'd
have made a mental note of who the copyright owner was. I was more
interested in learning what the original line might have been, but it
wasn't mentioned.
A couple of times at our staff carol services at the RSC, we played a
setting by one of my colleagues (for speaker and instruments) of a text
by John Julius Norwich — the thank-you letters for the gifts. It started
with charmed delight over the partridge and became increasingly fraught
and hysterical as more and more stuff was delivered. The twelve drummers
were acknowledged with a solicitor's letter instructing the sender never
to bother the recipient again. Unfortunately, it doesn't make such an
interesting scripting exercise. ;-)
NG
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