[B5JMS] Attn JMS - scripts for visually impaired? (was Re: an update from jms)

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From: Citizen Vantu <vantu_lives at yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:04:52 +0000 (UTC)
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> Unfortunately, the company doesn't have the systems by which to do
> this, so at this point there's not much we can do, and the scripts have
> never been transferred to brail, so 5,600 pages would have to be done
> before we could even talk about the production side.
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If you have enough employees with good speaking voices you could produce =
the scripts in audio
therefore spoken form. Of course it is impossible to have them all in tha=
t form in a short notice
but perhaps some key or the very best episodes like "Sleeping In Light?"

Until Next Time

Jan-Willem Kalk


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From: "Thunder, Agent '005" <deceptar at shaw.ca>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 06:21:04 +0000 (UTC)
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Citizen Vantu wrote:

> If you have enough employees with good speaking voices you could produce the scripts in audio
> therefore spoken form. 

I think this qualifies as a performance and can't be done since Warner 
owns the rights to performances of the script, while Joe owns the actual 
script (at least, that was my understanding. Perhaps somebody like Amy 
would know for sure?)

t.k.


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:12:02 +0000 (UTC)
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Thunder, Agent '005 wrote:
> Citizen Vantu wrote:
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> > If you have enough employees with good speaking voices you could produce the scripts in audio
> > therefore spoken form.
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> I think this qualifies as a performance and can't be done since Warner
> owns the rights to performances of the script, while Joe owns the actual
> script (at least, that was my understanding. Perhaps somebody like Amy
> would know for sure?)
>

Correct.  There is a qualitative, and *legal* distinction between
reading a prose novel, to which the author and/or publisher has the
performance rights, to essentially performing a script, even if that
performance is by one reader, to which neither the publisher nor the
author holds the performance rights.  I know without question that WB
would take the position that a reading of the scripts would constitute
a performance infringing on their own rights, and sue.  The scripts can
be published under established WGA rules, but that's all.

jms