Issues and developments related to Intellectual Property (e.g. Copyright, Fair Use, Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets) and Open Movements (e.g. Open Access, Open Data, Open Educational Resources (OER)), examined in the "Intellectual Property and Open Movements" and "Ethics of Data, Information, and Emerging Technologies" graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. -- Kip Currier, PhD, JD
Showing posts with label Faulkner case against Midnight in Paris film dismissed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Faulkner case against Midnight in Paris film dismissed. Show all posts
Saturday, July 20, 2013
The Past Is Not Dead, but Faulkner Case Against ‘Midnight in Paris’ Is Dismissed; New York Times, 7/19/13
Dave Itzkoff, New York Times; The Past Is Not Dead, but Faulkner Case Against ‘Midnight in Paris’ Is Dismissed:
"A courtroom face-off between the film studio that released Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” and the rights holders of William Faulkner’s novels did not yield any terrific legal sparks. But it may have produced a noteworthy literary creation in the form of a thoughtful and funny decision from the judge overseeing the case...
Having viewed “Midnight in Paris” and read “Requiem for a Nun” in the course of the case, Judge Mills wrote that the court was “thankful that the parties did not ask the court to compare ‘The Sound and the Fury’ with ‘Sharknado.’""
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