[OT] Moore Film Title Angers Author Bradbury
 

Moore ;-p lawyers getting rich on this one.


"Curmudgeon" curmudg@eon wrote in message
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Saturday, June 19, 2004

LOS ANGELES -- An angry Ray Bradbury is demanding an apology from
filmmaker Michael Moore for lifting the title from his classic
science-fiction novel "Fahrenheit 451," for his new documentary
"Fahrenheit 9/11."

"He didn't ask my permission," Bradbury, 83, told The Associated Press
on Friday. "That's not his novel, that's not his title, so he
shouldn't have done it."

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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/arti...8/215229.shtml)

You cannot copyright a Title, or so I've heard..

( & I HOPE Ray Bradbury's sales just SOAR !! ; anyone remember
" The Sound Of Thunder" or " The Pedestrian" ?)


In article , "mi-oldradios"
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Moore ;-p lawyers getting rich on this one.


"Curmudgeon" curmudg@eon wrote in message
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Saturday, June 19, 2004

LOS ANGELES -- An angry Ray Bradbury is demanding an apology from
filmmaker Michael Moore for lifting the title from his classic
science-fiction novel "Fahrenheit 451," for his new documentary
"Fahrenheit 9/11."

"He didn't ask my permission," Bradbury, 83, told The Associated Press
on Friday. "That's not his novel, that's not his title, so he
shouldn't have done it."

(article continues at
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/arti...8/215229.shtml)

You cannot copyright a Title, or so I've heard..

Correct. In fact, that was hassled out years ago in Hollywood in regard to
movie titles, and it applies to those of books and other things, too.

Bill, K5BY

(WShoots1) wrote in message ...

You cannot copyright a Title, or so I've heard..

Correct. In fact, that was hassled out years ago in Hollywood in regard to
movie titles, and it applies to those of books and other things, too.

Bill, K5BY


Yes. Think about it. All you'd have to do is be the first person to
write a book called "Dictionary," or "Encyclopedia." From that point
on, you could sue anyone else who tried to put together a dictionary
or encyclopedia.

Google for "wind done gone".

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...=Google+Search

"The Wind Done Gone" is a book giving an alternate view of the events
in "Gone With the Wind." Margaret Mitchell's estate fumed - and sued -
but "The Wind Done Gone" was published nonetheless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_Done_Gone


Plot Summary

The plot of Gone With the Wind revolves around a rich Southern woman
named Scarlett O'Hara, who lives through the American Civil War and
Reconstruction. The Wind Done Gone is the same story, but told from
the viewpoint of a mulatto slave on Scarlett's plantation (see History
of slavery in the United States); the title is simply "Gone With the
Wind" rendered into a slave's vernacular dialect.

Besides, it _is_ legal to make a parody (to a certain extent). Moore
could just say he was parodying Bradbury's title with his, if this
ever would go to court, which it won't.

"Invader3k" wrote in message
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Besides, it _is_ legal to make a parody (to a certain extent). Moore
could just say he was parodying Bradbury's title with his, if this
ever would go to court, which it won't.

Never say never... Wasn't it Verizon that went to court to protect their
'copyright' on the phrase "Push to Talk", which has been used on two way
radios for decades before Verizon ever existed?

"Brenda Ann Dyer" wrote in message
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Never say never... Wasn't it Verizon that went to court to protect their
'copyright' on the phrase "Push to Talk", which has been used on two way
radios for decades before Verizon ever existed?




Something like that. It was a trademark for the use of "Push to Talk" just
for use on cellphones, however.

My favorite trademark case is:

http://www.despair.com/demotivators/frownonthis.html

Frank Dresser

"Frank Dresser" wrote in message

My favorite trademark case is:
http://www.despair.com/demotivators/frownonthis.html

Frank Dresser


What a bunch of scumbags.

"Brian Hill" wrote in message
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What a bunch of scumbags.



Dr. E. L. Kersten is offering a compromise:

http://www.despair.com/demotivators/acompromise.html

Frank Dresser

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"Brenda Ann Dyer" wrote in message
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Never say never... Wasn't it Verizon that went to court to protect their
'copyright' on the phrase "Push to Talk", which has been used on two way
radios for decades before Verizon ever existed?




Something like that. It was a trademark for the use of "Push to Talk" just
for use on cellphones, however.

My favorite trademark case is:

http://www.despair.com/demotivators/frownonthis.html

Frank Dresser

FD,

I have only one thing to say (write).

" :-( "

sad, So Sad. I Am In Despair ! ~ RHF

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