When Copyright is Copywrong

Margot Wallström, a Vice President of the European Commission, posted an amusing story about copyright on her blog:

"I had an eventful last weekend. Friday night I saw an impressive performance of “West Side Story” in Berlare together with the Foreign Minister of Belgium and around 2000 other spectators. Every two years there is a festival in Berlare located by Belgium’s one and only natural lake Donkmeer (although a Swede would probably hesitate to call it that…) and a musical performance mixing professional dancers and singers with amateurs.

The producers originally intended to have Flemish and Moroccan gangs as a contemporary twist on this classic story about mistrust between communities. It would have been very meaningful here in Belgium but the copyright holders apparently would not let them so it remained Americans and Puerto Ricans."

Sometimes copyright is so stupid.