Comments on: Luc Besson Has To Pay John Carpenter For Ripping Off ‘Escape From New York’ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/luc-besson-pay-john-carpenter-500000-ripping-off-escape-new-york-20160729/ Sat, 30 Jul 2016 01:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Scott W. Black https://staging2.theplaylist.net/luc-besson-pay-john-carpenter-500000-ripping-off-escape-new-york-20160729/#comment-26864 Sat, 30 Jul 2016 01:01:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.net/?p=37334#comment-26864 Ridiculous. Carpenter “borrowed” liberally for many of his movies. Plus, LOCKOUT was a lot of fun.

]]> By: rnlol https://staging2.theplaylist.net/luc-besson-pay-john-carpenter-500000-ripping-off-escape-new-york-20160729/#comment-26863 Fri, 29 Jul 2016 23:16:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.net/?p=37334#comment-26863 And of course John Carpenter would never “massively borrow key elements” from, say, Rio Bravo.

]]> By: ZIL https://staging2.theplaylist.net/luc-besson-pay-john-carpenter-500000-ripping-off-escape-new-york-20160729/#comment-26861 Fri, 29 Jul 2016 21:12:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.net/?p=37334#comment-26861 Wow. This strikes yet another blow to creators within the film economy. I hate to see it come to this. Hasn’t there always been an agreement among film artists that it’s wrong to steal but to legislate against theft is impractical, dangerous even? This broadening the terms of what can be considered intellectual property will make it harder for new films to be green-lit moving forward. Everyone realizes that we’re at a place where an enormous number of films have been made…if you lived 700 years and watched a different movie every day you still wouldn’t have watched every movie ever made. How easy will it be for artists to move forward? We need to make sure certain rights revert to public domain arbitrarily after a certain number of years (probably 100) or else we’re going to be seriously restricting the creative freedom of geniuses to come. If Ovid had had a standing copyright on Pyramus and Thisbe there would absolutely no Romeo and Juliet. And we’re not talking about Ovid and Shakespeare. We’re talking about artists in a popular genre famously, delightfully prone to repetition. This news, along the Blurred Lines lawsuit, is deeply troubling. I also don’t believe these two plots are similar to warrant this decision. What a shame.

I would love to hear someone defend the decision, however. Any IP lawyers want to present an argument why this good for artists as well as copyright holders?

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