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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
Consider the fact (that I cannot back up atm) that 30% of all proverbs or idiomatic expressions come either from the king james bible or shakespeare. Then imagine you could never talk about "taking a pound of flesh" anymore. The (overrated) movie "seven pounds" with W. Smith would instantly be gone. Similarly for Romeo and Juliet: Tchaikovsky wouldn't have been allowed to write his works, Wagner wouldn't have written Tristan & Isolde, Bartók wouldn't have been allowed to create his folk-inspired music, and neither would Mozart or Bach, etc. Unless, of course, they had paid royalties to the **AA.
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Lest we forget that Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare was lifted almost piecemeal from an earlier piece entitled Mariotto and Gianozza, which in turn was influenced by earlier stories.