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Seeing that YA is about to shut down I may as well ask this question now (should have done it a long time ago). A long time ago someone told me back in high school that Bruce supposedly took on 40 people at once and came out on top. A longtime friend told me that it wasn't literally 40 people that he fought. Something like that would have been impossible even for Bruce Lee he tells me. According to him it was actually 5 - 6 really good masters who challenged him once. Saw a video on Youtube that talks about the former incident but not the later. 

Any info on this would be appreciated. Thanks in advanced and sorry that YA is going to close. This was my ''go to'' answer site for the longest time.

Good bye. 

Greetings once again everyone. I am aware of the fact that this isn't the first time I asked this sort of question but I made a costly mistake and was unable to correct it in time.

I posted a similar question a couple of weeks ago right here on yahoo answers.

Now, even though I received sufficient responses to my original post. The problem was that I failed to properly word the question beforehand and realized this all too late.

You see when I meant interpreting someone else work, I didn't literally mean to give the original work of art a ''re-imagining'' of sorts.

I simply meant giving the original work my own unique interpretation.

As in what is the original painting, story, film or any other work of art suppose to ''mean'' through metaphor's, symbolism, allegory and what have you.

Basically what said work of art is suppose to represent from my own individual perspective.

Since not two people are going to think exactly alike. I believe in protecting one's intellectual labor (as silly as it may seem).

I sincerely apologize for any kind of confusion this may have caused.

As always, thanks in advanced.

Happy Holidays!!!

Hello again everyone.

I've already asked this sort of question in the ''Art and Humanities'' category.

But received just response.

I was advised to give it another try here in the ''Law and Ethics'' category to see If I can have some better luck at getting multiple replies.

So herein lies the question:

Is it possible to copyright you're own unique interpretation for a painting or some other work of art?

In other words. I can't copyright the original work because it obviously doesn't belong to me. But my own interpretation does. So can I legally copyright that?

As always. Thanks in advanced.

Hello everyone.

My question is the following:

Is it possible to copyright you're own unique interpretation for a painting or some other work of art?

In other words. I can't copyright the original work because it obviously doesn't belong to me. But my own interpretation does. So can I legally copyright that?

As always. Thanks in advanced.

Okay. I have a question regarding the practice of Judo. I am interested in taking up Judo to go along with my BJJ game, they say that both styles complement each other very well plus I just think that the throws in Judo look so freaking awesome.

I've been doing some research beforehand concerning Judo's safety practices and found a disturbing trend.

Link 1: http://judojiko.net/eng/news/55.html

Link 2:http://judojiko.net/eng/wp-content/uploads/2010/12...

Now I realize that we shouldn't jump to hasty conclusions there has to be a number of reasons for this kind of thing happening (gross negligence on the teachers part, the kids were overworked, weren't taught how to break falls properly, some of them may have had pre-existing medical conditions, etc). I suspect that this might be a cultural issue more than anything I truly hope that they are taking the proper steps to correct this problem, this kind of thing should never happen. However that doesn't necessarily mean that Judo is inherently a dangerous art (at least I don't think so). I don't know that much about Judo but I do know that proper Ukemi should always be applied correctly taking into consideration the rapid acceleration/deceleration of the throws. To my knowledge the head doesn't even have to take a direct hit for possible trauma to occur.

Now the reason why I am so concerned about this is because I like taking martial arts but as a hobby a pass time if you will. My true passion is writing and I don't want to put that at risk for anything in the world.

One last thing I'd like to point out. The founder Dr Jigoro Kano wanted to create a style of Jujutsu that could be practiced safely and effectively thus Judo was born. But he was an educator first and foremost. He majored in Political Science and Economics. He was a well respected teacher in Japan during his time. I personally know a Professor who is not only a Judoka but also teaches it in my local college.

There is also another Sensei that I know of who has taken multiple Martial Arts (including Judo) for years and he also happens to be a Lawyer.

My point is that if Judo really carries a risk of serious brain injury then these Judokas in question would eventually (probably) come to a point on where they would no longer be a able to continue with their respective professions

especially considering that their careers require a lot of heavy thinking.

I know that I shouldn't go in life worrying too much about this or that because if one goes with that mentality might as well never leave your house. Maybe I am overreacting but is only because writing is so precious to me and I can't stand the thought not of being to able to write anymore because of possible traumatic brain injury or something. But I would still like to continue pursuing Martial Arts because of all the benefits it brings (self confidence,discipline, having the peace of mind that you can defend yourself if you're ever put in a position where you have absolutely have to, etc.) Truly the positives outweigh the negatives.

I'm not saying that Judo is 100% dangerous per say (it's certainly safer than boxing). But I'm still concerned about it enough to the point that I'm beginning to think twice about taking up Judo. So in short my question is what are the chances of suffering any kind of brain injury from the throws in Judo even with proper Ukemi and training under a controlled environment? Any advice on this matter would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advanced.