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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">(not a lawyer, just my rambling thoughts)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">If you acquired copies of the set plans, and re-drew and built from those, I’m pretty sure that would be copyright infringement).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Stagecraft <stagecraft-bounces@theatrical.net>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ross via Stagecraft<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 7, 2022 2:41 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Stagecraft Mailing List <stagecraft@theatrical.net><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [SML] A design question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">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.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Clay Ross<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Pro Dreamer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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