The "Les Miserables" show by K&P Amusement, slated to happen this month in Seoul and also Busan, has actually become stuck in a copyright disagreement.
On Monday, Les Miserables Korea, which holds performance civil liberties to the Korean-language variation of the English musical in Korea, asserted that the future concert is an unauthorized manufacturing that breaches the musical's copyrights.
K&P Amusement on Tuesday refuted the case, claiming that the future performance is based upon a "French-language concert organized by a French production. It is pointless from the English variation of the 'Les Miserables' music."
" Musical 'Les Miserable' was first presented in French in Paris, France in 1980, before Cameron Mackintosh generated the English variation of the show in 1985," the news stated.
The performance was created based upon the legal advices of a copyright lawyer, it added.
" Concert manufacturings do not require pre-authorization of the copyright holders. The process calls for pre-notice to a copyright board as well as settlement after that," it claimed.
" Regarding issues over the copyright violation against the English variation of the music 'Les Miserables,' we tried to come to a contract with the company."
Les Miserables Korea has actually been arguing that the upcoming performance production has actually not been accepted by the original musical's lyricist Alain Boublil, composer Claude-Michel Schonberg and also the initial musical manufacturing company Cameron Mackintosh.
The English version of the musical "Les Miserables" premiered in London in 1985. In Korea, the licensed variation of the musical was staged in 2012 as well as 2015, produced by Les Miserables Korea.
