[QUOTE="swamprat_basic"]There are literally thousands of complaints about copyright infringement every single year, and most of them are bullcrap. The issue of the cover does sound a little sketchy, but an idea is not copyrightable, and neither is a title.

She mentions reading about the fight between Judd Apatow and Mark Brazill, but if she had actually finished reading that article she would have realized that Mark Brazill was a complete lunactic. Brazill accused Apatow of using one of his TV show ideas in a sketch comedy show, but it turned out that Brazill had told Apatow the idea after that episode of the show had all ready been filmed.

It is disturbingly easy for two people to have the same idea at the same time as one another. Some cases are stronger than others, but very few are succesful. The case of Amistad is probably one of the only really succesful ones, because the writer admitted that he had read the other work.bluezy

And what? I all ready said that it seems a little sketchy, but I give very little support for most of these so called "writers" that sue because they feel their stories were stolen. And I'm a writer. They're not suing about the story; they're suing about the idea. A good idea does not make a good movie. Good writing makes a good movie. Do you think that any of the things that the woman is talking about have contributed to making "Knocked Up" a successful movie? No. It's successful, because of the comedy. Who gives a @&#% if Heigl plays a reporter, or Rogen's character comes from Canada?

Ideas are not copyrightable. And the whole thing about Apatow selling his script 5 months after the woman published her book in the US, seems like its cutting a little bit close. He didn't finish his script the day he sold it, and it most certainly took him longer than 5 months to write it. I've been working on my latest screenplay for 2 years.

I refuse to pay money to see a product of copyright infringement. I read that article, written by the woman who wrote the book it was clearly based on, and i fully believe that Judd Apatow, the director, ripped it off of her.bluezy

There are literally thousands of complaints about copyright infringement every single year, and most of them are bullcrap. The issue of the cover does sound a little sketchy, but an idea is not copyrightable, and neither is a title.

She mentions reading about the fight between Judd Apatow and Mark Brazill, but if she had actually finished reading that article she would have realized that Mark Brazill was a complete lunactic. Brazill accused Apatow of using one of his TV show ideas in a sketch comedy show, but it turned out that Brazill had told Apatow the idea after that episode of the show had all ready been filmed.

It is disturbingly easy for two people to have the same idea at the same time as one another. Some cases are stronger than others, but very few are succesful. The case of Amistad is probably one of the only really succesful ones, because the writer admitted that he had read the other work.

Nobody is seeking Uwe Boll to direct their movies. He produces his own movies, and goes out and finds financing for his own movies. There's no way to stop him from making movies, because he wants to make movies, and there are countless suckers in the world with plenty of money to throw away. If people want to have their movies shown in theaters then they need to go out and find financing for their movies, and make movies that are good enough to win festivals and get shown in theaters.

The bigger problem is the state of multiplexes these days, where there is no room for independent movies. Uwe Boll is not the problem. The only reason we've heard of him is because he seeks out all of the video game licenses.

[QUOTE="Atilac"]Sonys answer to losing the console war, is soft-core porn?ForTheNguyen

y do u have to turn an ad to the console war?

insecure much?

Considering how the title to your thread is "LOL Sony's new "This is Living" add pwns nindy and ms".........:|