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The Lawsuit of the Rings
securitas writes "The New York Times' Ross Johnson reports that Lord of the Rings trilogy director, Peter Jackson, is suing New Line Cinemas for underpaying him by as much as $100 millon. The lawsuit filed Feb. 28 alleges that New Line committed fraud. Jackson 'reportedly receives about 20 percent of the gross revenue realized by New Line for the trilogy, minus expenses such as taxes.' Jackson's lawyer confirmed that of the more than $4 billion that New Line collected from revenues, merchandise and licensing, Jackson has received 'almost $200 million to date from New Line for the trilogy.' If the opening line doesn't make you want to read the article, I don't know what will: 'What if Frodo Baggins, instead of confronting the evil empire in "The Lord of the Rings," just got himself a lawyer and sued?'"
Slashdot has some serious double standards.
Not that I don't agree in this case, but most of you guys have no problem at all taking from the rich and justifying it because they're rich, or the fact that you just plain don't like them.
Something tells me if PJ was just some random guy with over $200 million dollars and New Line wasn't the super rich hated bad guy PJ would be the one taking all the heat regardless of the fact that he's right and New Line is wrong.