In Reply to: How many books have you published Victor? BTW, electronics pamphlets don't count! posted by Audiophilander on June 17, 2004 at 14:21:57:
Go and read the post again - it sez film... hear? Film, not book. Your fixation on book is your usual diversionary tactics.So we are talking about a film that cuts way to close to another film, the title of which its author holds close to his chest... and he should.
So inspite of all your puffing and spitting, Bradbury would most likely have a good case if he wanted to bring it up.
By a strange coincidence, he also wrote the movie script... bummer...
For a worthy exercise you might try some other book-movie pairs.
Start with War and Peace.
I am sure you can google more... can you? Maybe I shouldn't eb so sure after these posts of yours.
For your information, the court in such case would consider many aspects, like the trademark, and the title significance, recognition, etc.
There are many titles that would have difficult time in court defending their right. Something like Little House. Son. Thief. That sort of things. But the 451 is an important event and it holds special importance.
Whether or not Bradbury will do anything about it is up to him. I am not taking any sides in this. But to say he has no case here, simply because the offender happened to share your idiology, shows lack of integrity.
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Follow Ups
- You are so charming when you are clueless and nasty - Victor Khomenko 14:40:02 06/17/04 (15)
- Re: You are so charming when you are clueless and nasty - Analog Scott 12:06:33 06/21/04 (0)
- Read this S-L-O-W-L-Y and then think about it very, very carefully before responding: - Audiophilander 15:30:16 06/17/04 (13)
- One final pointer - Victor Khomenko 06:12:20 06/18/04 (11)
- Re: One final pointer - Analog Scott 12:12:16 06/21/04 (0)
- Since teaching an old Russian wolfhound new tricks requires a great deal more patience than I can muster at the moment: - Audiophilander 15:42:21 06/19/04 (9)
- More homework for a lazy student - Victor Khomenko 18:17:55 06/20/04 (8)
- No offense, but are you really that dense, Victor? - Audiophilander 21:00:48 06/20/04 (7)
- Re: No offense, but are you really that dense, Victor? - Analog Scott 12:16:43 06/21/04 (0)
- Simply caught you with your pants down - Victor Khomenko 04:44:22 06/21/04 (5)
- The "source" was simply for your benefit; I already knew you were wrong on this. - Audiophilander 08:57:42 06/21/04 (4)
- Ahem... you will never bother to learn, apparently. - Victor Khomenko 09:23:37 06/21/04 (3)
- Sheeeeeeesh! He employed NO DUE DILIGENCE in stopping others from borrowing reference to his book's title! - Audiophilander 11:50:27 06/21/04 (2)
- But your Honor, murders have been commited before! Why judge me? - Victor Khomenko 12:04:02 06/21/04 (1)
- Yes, "Fahrenheit 452" could even be legally used in some instances (i.e., as in a parody of the author's original work)! - Audiophilander 12:17:57 06/21/04 (0)
- You're both right. - ephemere 19:51:39 06/17/04 (0)