# According to Sargent (1916, Ch. XLIX paras 1-8), should a newcomer specialise in adaptation, who adapts in a studio, and what does he say about rights and outside adaptors?

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Sargent says no: adaptation alone is a poor route for a newcomer. Studios have staff writers who write or reconstruct, staff know studio stock and stars, and he claims nothing is gained by buying adaptations from free lances. He adds that studios prefer dealing with rights holders and that some watch for copyright expiry. These are 1916 US market assertions without data; the chapter says it gives hints for an author called on to adapt as part of creative work. This worker draws no legal conclusion.

Sargent says no: adaptation alone is a poor route for a newcomer. Studios have staff writers who write or reconstruct, staff know studio stock and stars, and he claims nothing is gained by buying adaptations from free lances. He adds that studios prefer dealing with rights holders and that some watch for copyright expiry. These are 1916 US market assertions without data; the chapter says it gives hints for an author called on to adapt as part of creative work. This worker draws no legal conclusion.

Curator qualifications: Adaptation order, source-type rules, event ordering, the bounded negatives on dialogue and inner thought, and reconstruction are verified as Sargent's text. The claim/example/market split in -07 holds.

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- [sourced_fact] Sargent says no: adaptation alone is a poor route for a newcomer. Studios have staff writers who write or reconstruct, staff know studio stock and stars, and he claims nothing is gained by buying adaptations from free lances. He adds that studios prefer dealing with rights holders and that some watch for copyright expiry. These are 1916 US market assertions without data; the chapter says it gives hints for an author called on to adapt as part of creative work. This worker draws no legal conclusion. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XLIX offsets per candidate · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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