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Re: Fair use and allusion?
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Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:27:00 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
   Ray Bradbury is fired up about the title of Michael Moore’s forthcoming film. Regardless of your opinion of Moore or of Bradbury, it seems to me that this complaint is largely based on nothing. Bradbury’s Farenheit 451 is a copyrighted work, to be sure, but it seems to me that the laws protecting satire & parody should easily trump Bradbury’s objection to Moore’s allusive use of the title. I suppose an issue could be made in that Bradbury was apparently made to expect an explanatory phone call from Moore, but beyond that...?

Thoughts?

What is Ray whining about? It gives some attention to his book, and parodies of an actual book/film/play titles are a long standing tradition in this country.

-->Bruce<--



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(...) As Ray himself knows very well! A LUGNET member-at-large reminded me that Bradbury's (URL) Wicked This Way Comes> is itself a rip-off of (URL) an earlier work.> Pedants and kneejerk anti-Moore zealots will no doubt observe that Shakespeare was (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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Ray Bradbury is fired up about (URL) title of Michael Moore's forthcoming film.> Regardless of your opinion of Moore or of Bradbury, it seems to me that this complaint is largely based on nothing. Bradbury's (URL) 451> is a copyrighted work, to be (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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