Admirable Bashville, The

By Shaw, George Bernard

Book Id: WPLBN0002952516
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File Size: 33.83 MB
Reproduction Date: 2011

Title:	Admirable Bashville, The
Author:	Shaw, George Bernard
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Dramatic Works
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Admirable Bashville, The
Historic Publication Date:	1901
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Bernard Shaw, B. G. (1901). Admirable Bashville, The. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
The Admirable Bashville is a product of the British law of copyright. As that law stands at present, the first person who patches up a stage version of a novel, however worthless and absurd that version may be, and has it read by himself and a few confederates to another confederate who has paid for admission in a hall licensed for theatrical performances, secures the stage rights of that novel, even as against the author himself; and the author must buy him out before he can touch his own work for the purposes of the stage...As a good Socialist I do not at all object to the limitation of my right of property in my own works to a comparatively brief period, followed by complete Communism: in fact, I cannot see why the same salutary limitation should not be applied to all property rights whatsoever; but a system which enables any alert sharper to acquire property rights in my stories as against myself and the rest of the community would, it seems to me, justify a rebellion if authors were numerous and warlike enough to make one. (Summary by G.B. Shaw, from the Preface)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading