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Skriven 2006-08-28 16:50:00 av Robert E Starr JR (7684.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: More B5 TV / DVD Movi
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>> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:28:19 -0400, Wendy of NJ wrote
(in article <iak6f29eub3giqqo5o5k5a5eeq8oosk7bt@4ax.com>):

> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:30:37 GMT, Amy Guskin <aisling@fjordstone.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>>> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:02:31 -0400, Matt Ion wrote
>> (in article <HNuIg.473808$iF6.103402@pd7tw2no>):
>> 
>>> Amy Guskin wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Just to be clear, in both of those cases, the complainants had legitimate 
>>>> cases, and the infringements were against something much more developed 
>>>> than 
>>>> an offhand remark on a newsgroup bearing a faint and vague resemblance to 
>>>> something that eventually made it to screen.  The specific issue here is 
>>>> that 
>>>> JMS can only post in this newsgroup if he is protected against anyone who 
>>>> might even _think_ they have a case against him; thus, no story ideas.
>>> 
>>> In a more recent twist, this one popped up in the news late last month:
>>> 
>>> Veteran rockers Steely Dan have accused Owen Wilson of plagiarizing their 
>>> song 
>>> "Cousin Dupree" for his new comedy movie You, Me And Dupree. In a letter 
>>> posted 
>>> on their website and addressed to Wilson's brother Luke, band members 
>>> Donald 
>>> Fagen and Walter Becker label Wilson's supposed rip-off of their 2001 
>>> Grammy-winning track as "uncool." They write: "Your brother has gotten 
>>> himself 
>>> mixed up with some pretty bad Hollywood schlockmeisters." Wilson plays 
>>> slacker 
>>> Dupree, who becomes an unwelcome guest of his pal Matt Dillon and his wife 
>>> Kate 
>>> Hudson - and Fagen and Becker draw parallels with their Randolph Dupree 
>>> character, a traveling musician who "comes back home to plan (his) next 
>>> move 
>>> from the comfort of (his) Aunt Faye's couch." They continue: "When it came 
>>> time 
>>> to change the character's name so people wouldn't know what a rip the 
>>> whole 
>>> thing was, they didn't even bother to think up a new name for the guy." <<
>> 
>> When I first heard this story a few weeks, ago, my comment was "Steely Dan 
>> was still around...and making records...and winning Grammys in 2001??"  To 
>> me, that was the "newsy" part of that news story.  As to the veracity of 
>> the 
>> claim, if they don't settle out of court, it'll be for a judge to decide.  
>> The only similarities I've heard about thus far are the name, the 
>> situation, 
>> and the couch - so I don't know how compelling a case this'll be to the 
>> court.
>> 
>> Amy
> 
> I thought that was enough for Buchwald to win his suit... <<

No, no - Buchwald's case was very different.  He'd actually submitted a 
treatment to Paramount, at their solicitation I believe (not sure of that, 
though), for a film about an African prince coming to the US.  So the 
similarities between his treatment and the eventual film  "Coming to America" 
plus the fact that the studio had _officially seen_ his treatment, made it 
(IMHO) an open and shut case.  In this one, the assumption is that the 
screenwriter may have inadvertently created something with similarities to 
something he heard, but he didn't deliberately plagiarize.  Kind of more like 
George Harrison and "My Sweet Lord"/"He's So Fine".

Amy
                                                                               
         
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