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Re: Fair use and allusion?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:28:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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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?
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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.
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As Ray himself knows very well! A LUGNET member-at-large reminded me that
Bradbury’s
Something Wicked This Way Comes is itself a rip-off of
an earlier work.
Pedants and kneejerk anti-Moore zealots will no doubt observe that Shakespeare
was dead for 3+ centuries before Bradbury ripped him off, but that’s really just
a difference of degree.
Dave!
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Message is in Reply To:
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| (...) 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<-- (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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