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Amazon Screenplay-Writing Software Submits Work To Amazon Studios (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Amazon has released new screenplay-writing software aimed to help connect new writing talent to its original content production company, Amazon Studios. Storywriter contains many of the autoformatting tools familiar to users of similar software such as Final Draft and Celtx, but no other screenwriting tool can claim to actually send unknown writers' output to potentially interested producers.
I'm kind of hoping this might lead to better plot lines in typical pornographic films. Historically the quality has been a little bit lacking. If we can make it easier to write screenplays and attract new and better talent, this could go a long way towards fixing this situation.
I simply can not imagine how big that slush pile is going to grow. Even if they run an automated grammar check or something and reject the out-and-out fails without human intervention, they are going to get so many submissions they aren't going to be able to keep up.
I give it two weeks.
A thousand pounds of wood moving at 300 feet per minute. Don't get in the way.
Whatever you're on, you need either a lot less or a lot more.
I'm not sure WHAT they could possibly change to rape screenwriters harder, in this, but by God if they think of something, you've already agreed to it! :D
And so another field of human endeavor is Uber-fied
No, they are not agreeing. It's an automated process. You, on the other hand, are agreeing to the terms. They can not be expected to read each and every submission to its conclusion nor can they be reasonably expected to respond to such. No judge, even if they steal your work, will give you any consideration for this. No lawyer will take it on contingency. No jury will award you damages or find in your favor.
I am not a lawyer but this is legal advice: Do not listen to the parent poster without getting professional legal council.
I've done quite a bit of work with lawyers, specifically with contract law, and have even done a great deal of my own research in some cases. I've also had some dealings with criminal courts, up to and including petitioning for standing - you can always ask, well - until you piss a judge off by bugging them too much, then they may tell you to stop and hold you in contempt if you don't. But, you can petition the court for most anything - even for them to let you take a deity to court. (They won't agree but you can ask.)
Anyhow, judges don't take kindly to legal weasel words regardless of what you see on television, read in books, or see in the movies. It doesn't work like that and you'll piss the judge off. On top of that, your submission, via an automated process, would not even remotely indicate that they approved of the contract and such would not be legally binding in any way, shape, or form. You mentioned it several times in the thread (the same verbiage was used each time) so I feel compelled to tell you to not do this and I feel obligated to make sure nobody is daft enough to believe you.
What I can recommend is that you uphold your end of the social contract. What's that? Such a severe topic for such a trivial post? Yes, yes indeed.
See, we as citizens are obligated to make sure that we have the government we're due. One of the easiest routes to access and change the government is the court. The court is an important place. You, as a citizen, need to watch the courts and observe their actions - which means knowing a little bit about the law and ensuring that the court has upheld the law - even for people who are likely guilty of crimes you find reprehensible. (You can always petition for standing or to speak as a friend of the court - it doesn't always work.) So, it's fairly obvious that you've not done this. What you should do, as well as everyone else, is take a few days a year our of your busy schedule and use that time to observe the courts. They're usually open to the public. They have access to a law library, it's free, and you can generally even ask a nice lawyer for a little help and they'll give it to you if you have a quick question and a wise question.
Such is your end of the social bargain. You want a government that does what it is meant to do? You need to take the time to observe the government and make sure that it is doing the job you let it do. This lapse in social duty is probably the greatest cause of the governmental degradations we have. You rely on media or someone else to do the job. It does take some sacrifice to accomplish this, one needs to make the time for it, but it is your job to do so. An inattentive populous is a politician's dream. Do your job.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Seems to me the "If you do post content or submit material" means that you are wrong.
The title *could* have been written more clearly, you know.. I read it as the *software itself* submitted a screenplay to Amazon. So that's where A.I. develops literary talents? Frankly, it could be an improvement// I suppose.