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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Do you have any links to articles on that? It sounds too good to be true. Or maybe an Onion article.
A few years ago, people were outraged because Christian radio stations were playing a version of John Lennon's Imagine where the line had been edited to "one religion too."
Of course, it was completely untrue. Yoko would never allow that. I suspect the same is true for the imagined rewrite of the Narnia books.
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Given what I've heard in other cover songs? I suspect the original writer/rights holder have nothing to say about it. There has been a long tradition of other singers modifying songs.
Look at Joan Baez's cover of David Patton's
Lincoln Freed Me Today (The Slave) where the last line of the song was changed from "Lincoln freed me today" to "Now I am free to go my way". Oddly, the only point where the original line appeared in the song. Personally, I preferred Ian and Sylvia's version.
As for a rewrite of the Chronicles of Narnia? Last time I looked, they are not in PD so the rights holder would have the right to take infringers to court.