Le voyage dans la lune (operetta) but due to the need to raise the necessary money he did not take up the project. Eventually Albert Vizentini, the new directeur of the Gaîté, took up the idea, and Offenbach's contribution was limited to that of composer. Albert Vanloo and Eugène Leterrier, in association with Arnold Mortier (columnist at Figaro), wrote the libretto. They were hoping for a repeat of the success of the novels of Jules Verne (another, the novel "Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours", had been adapted for the stage at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin by Verne himself in 1874) and the
Societe Le Chant du Monde v. Societe Fox Europe and Societe Fox Americaine Twentieth Century in "Le Chant du Monde" was merely a motion picture soundtrack) until the author is dead, even though the works quite clearly are in the public domain. This case was discussed in Strauss, "The Moral Right of the Author", 4 Am. J. Comp. L. 506, 534-35 n.56 (1955). Societe Le Chant du Monde v. Societe Fox Europe and Societe Fox Americaine Twentieth Century Societe Le Chant du Monde v. Societe Fox Europe and Societe Fox Americaine Twentieth Century is a French case had the same facts as the New York case "Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox", wherein four Russian composers sued