[SML] A design question

[Riter, Andrew]

(not a lawyer, just my rambling thoughts)

If you drew new set plans from memory of the TV show, which could resemble the original:  not copyright.  It won’t be close enough.
If you drew set plans while looking at stills/paused images of the TV show: drawings may be more accurate, but I doubt it would be close enough to break the law.
If you acquired copies of the set plans, and re-drew and built from those, I’m pretty sure that would be copyright infringement).

Andrew M. Riter
Assistant Technical Director, Head Lighting Technician
Chan Centre

Phone 604 822 2372
andrew.riter at ubc.ca<mailto:andrew.riter at ubc.ca>

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For those of you who are smarter than me, (which is most of you), I have a design question.  The local HS will be doing "Addams Family the Musical" & I have been asked to design the set.  I would like to base my designs off of the classic TV show, but I am not sure if that breaks copyright law.  (The last show I worked I had someone screaming copyright at my solutions to any problems.)

So where is the line here?  Is their a line?  Being this in a school setting, I would rather teach the kids the right way rather just get it done & hope no one is looking.



Clay Ross

Pro Dreamer
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