Murder from a fixed Viewpoint Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/murder-from-a-fixed-viewpoint/ Sat, 07 Nov 2020 09:00:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png Murder from a fixed Viewpoint Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/murder-from-a-fixed-viewpoint/ 32 32 ‘Rear Window’ Copyright Holders Finally Netflix ‘Disturbia’: Lawsuit Ensues https://staging2.theplaylist.net/rear-window-copyright-holders-finally-20080909/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/rear-window-copyright-holders-finally-20080909/#respond Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:00:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=10138 Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks have found themselves the defendants in a lawsuit that states they stole the plot for their 2006 film “Disturbia” from the 1954 Hitchcock classic, “Rear Window.” The suit claims that the creators failed to obtain permission from the Sheldon Abend Revocable Trust, the group which holds the movie rights to the Cornell Woolrich short story, “Murder from a Fixed Viewpoint.” The Woolrich short story is the source material for “Rear Window,” making the rehash of the original film an illegal act without consent of the group that holds the copyright to the source material.

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