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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
But what do you think will be easier to sell to an uninterested public? "Tchaikovsky writes a fantasy-overture to Romeo and Juliet" or "Tchaikovsky writes a fantasy-overture to a story about a boy and a girl, both 13 years old, who have fallen in lust with each other and think they will die if they are ever separated in the future, and who in the end die because of a misunderstanding about their scheme to break free"?
Also, don't you think that story is a bit too specific not to be recognized as "R&J"? Or should Shakespeare's version then have ended happily, in order to preempt an "unoriginality" lawsuit?
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But, with respect, the fact that a work is still in copyright simply means that the composer would have to license the rights, just as an author now not-uncommonly licenses movie rights for a book. It's not a "ban" on it being used.