So this is pre George Floyd, pre-everything,” he explained. As we see more and more of these lawsuits, even ones that settle, it becomes apparent that corporations are stifling freedom of expression.While it may seem the film, slated to release January 15, was created in response to the death of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Parker revealed it was actually written a year prior, following a conversation with his nephew. The thing is, all four of those things are legal.Ĭopyright law, as it is, is supposed to protect the little guy from the big guy. There are facts of course, but there's no way to establish if (a) the writers never heard of the movie, (b) heard of the movie but didn't see it, (c) saw it but forgot about it, or (d) saw it and borrowed from it. But when that film/show/book comes out, 50,000 people say "hey I had that idea" (most of us have experienced this) and 1,000 people say "they ripped me off. The New Yorker article really makes a case overall that 50,000 people have an idea, 5,000 of them start to write it, 1,000 of them actually finishing something, 100 of them show it to others, and 0-1 of those get made. Just because Michael Bay is a goon doesn't mean that Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci didn't have the right to write their movie, whether or not they'd seen the other. This should mean that we all can take concepts and tell them in our own way. If the Island would have lost the lawsuit, George Lucas would have lost to Frank Nugent, and if he were alive and working, William Shakespeare could have sued Karen McCullah, Kirsten Smith, and about a thousand others. There were at least a dozen movies that The Island borrowed from. You never want a jury to try to break down this area of law either, the later studio settled because it was cheaper to settle than to pay lawyers to go to trial, even if they won. But people misunderstand the law, even lawyers who'd don't specialize in it. Code § 102 says, " In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work." Many of us have seen both films and there's no way that the earlier filmmakers had a case under statutory law. That's a great article about how many people can come up with the same idea, without any contact or connection. That the jury came to a not guilty conclusion says more about the outdated attitudes of the jury about sexual assault, rather than what actually went down that night. And the jury appeared to have questions about the very meaning of consent, the Daily Beast reported.Īfter a three-day trial and a brief deliberation, the jury acquitted Parker of all charges against him, and convicted Celestin of sexual assault. A previous, consensual encounter between the woman and Parker cast further doubt on her story. But the defense implied she had a history of partying hard and could hold her liquor. Several witnesses testified that on the night in question, the accuser had been highly intoxicated. At trial, though, the defense focused on undermining the victim and her supporting witnesses with questions about her outfit on the night in question, her drinking behavior, and which prescription drugs she might have mixed with alcohol.
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