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I remember the controversy here over Bates' score and its lifts from "Titus" when "300" first came out, so it looks like WB heard from the lawyers as well. Has there ever been another *public* apology and admission of plagiarism regarding film music?
Warner Bros. Pictures acknowledges and regrets that a number of the music cues for the score of "300" were, without our knowledge or participation, derived from music composed by Academy Award winning composer Elliot Goldenthal for the motion picture "Titus." Warner Bros. Pictures has great respect for Elliot, our longtime collaborator, and is pleased to have amicably resolved this matter.
As posted 7/31 on: http://www.300ondvd.com
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I remember a "controversity" regarding Hans Zimmer and Ennio Morricone once, but I am not sure...
Philipp
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So was the complete recordings canceled?
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That. Is. Awesome. News.
But I love that it says "without our knowledge or participation."
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I would guess the public apology and admission is part of whatever settlement the lawyers came up with.
There was a note posted on the display for the "300" DVD at Best Buy indicating to go to the website for "important information regarding the source of the music score." I would have to guess that *someone* was mighty unhappy about the plagiarism to require that type of public admission of guilt.
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I would guess the public apology and admission is part of whatever settlement the lawyers came up with.
There was a note posted on the display for the "300" DVD at Best Buy indicating to go to the website for "important information regarding the source of the music score." I would have to guess that *someone* was mighty unhappy about the plagiarism to require that type of public admission of guilt.
My guess is that we can ultimately blame the filmmakers, who, I think it's fairly obvious, temped the film with Mr. Goldenthal's score and directed the film's composer to copy it.
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Both film and audience would've been better served if they'd stolen cues from Miklós Rózsa, instead.
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By the way, WB's claim that the Goldenthal tracks were used "without our knowledge or participation" is a load of baloney.
You know that someone at WB knew what was going on.
Well, yes and no. Whoever made the decision at WB to post this disclaimer (which would have to come from VERY high up in the food chain) almost certainly didn't know that one of their films used some music tracks that were so close to the temp that they were effectively plagiarized. (And if Zach Snyder liked the "Titus" score so much, why didn't he simply buy the rights to the tracks in question? Ridley and Tony Scott do this all the time... not that I'm approving of it.)
However, Snyder, Tyler Bates and various other lower-level WB functionaries DID know, of course, that they were copying the temp pretty much note-for-note, and they probably got their hands slapped for thinking that they could get away with it.
(Note: this is speculation, of course, but for a studio to put a disclaimer like this on the website of a hit film that's just been released on DVD is pretty damn surprising, and you can bet that no exec or lawyer at WB wants a repeat of this.)
-- Jon
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