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Judge Rules Fox Has Copyright Claim To Watchmen
fermion writes "According to the NYT, a judge has decided that Fox owns the copyright to Watchmen, not Warner. Is this an example of copyright law becoming so complex that companies can abuse the court system to prevent competition, or just extreme incompetence by Warner? In the current business environment, either explanation is believable. Yet it is unbelievable that seasoned producers would spend hundreds of millions of dollars to create a movie that they can't even release. It seems the judge didn't want to bring this to a jury, and maybe daring Warner to appeal, or Fox to settle." The article says that Fox acquired movie rights to the Watchmen story in the late 1980s, but budget disputes and personnel changes have muddied the waters; Wikipedia has a bit more on the "development hell" which has plagued the film project.
I guess we have the answer to the question "who watches the Watchmen?"
Nobody.
You catch enchiladas by picking them up behind the head and holding them underwater until they don't kick anymore -VeGas
"Justice is coming to all of us no matter what we do."
Serves them all right.
Sig this!
OR Just leak it to BitTorrent already!
everyone wins!
It's meta-humor.
there are no directors still living that are capable of capturing what actually makes this work a masterpiece.
How convenient: Your hypothesis cannot be tested because of copyright law.
Those types will always be around; in the future, video rental stores (if they exist) will have entire wings devoted to various incarnations of "Batman," into which they can be shoved.
The Lord of the Rings movies went way past anything I expected, into the same class of story -- for me, tastes vary -- as L.A. Confidential, where the book and movie have some major disjoint but each is masterful within its realm.
timothy
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Warner still can release the movie via The Pirate Bay.
Until you view it as NTSC, then it's 29,970 words per second. Unfortunately it's worth less in Europe, only 25,000 words per second.
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In fact, I would argue that most Phillip K. Dick books are better as movies, once Hollywood has a chance to make some kind of sense with them.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
Spider Man, Superman, Iron Man, or random new made-up -Man.
Made-Up-Man, dashing valiantly from cosmetic counter to cosmetic counter, rescuing tragic make-up victims such as Drew Barrymore, Beyoncé, and Christina Aguilera.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
You are fucking idiot.
The OPs opinion doesn't matter because he doesn't respect the laws in question. He would deprive the copyright owner's of their legally guaranteed rights, just like your worthless ass would.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Especially when the original material is, in fact, a comic book.
It will be called "301 Spartans" where the lovable gaggle of Spartans must win out against the evil Persian Queen Cruella Divan.