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Posted by: cloroxmartini, June 7th, 2009, 1:34pm
Posted by: Tommyp, June 7th, 2009, 7:59pm; Reply: 1
This was a good read, thanks. Very interesting stuff. I liked the movie.
What are your thoughts on it cloroxmartini?
I can see that many elements in the films are stereotypical Hollywood, and underdog sports stories, but for me there are too many similarities, and I hope the original writers get what they should.
How do they work out how much they get? Is it a percent of something, or what?
Posted by: cloroxmartini, June 7th, 2009, 8:54pm; Reply: 2
i actually have no idea how this works. if it's anything like (non-movie) contract issues i'm familiar with, there is always a settlement option. the parties can agree to anything withing the law.
the original complaint contained an exhibit of the plaintiff's script, which if i were to read before watching Dodgeball, i would have thought they basically ripped it off.
it's that this issue has fallen off the radar in the last two years and i wanted to find out how and if it was settled.
Posted by: dresseme (Guest), June 7th, 2009, 10:14pm; Reply: 3
I'd be very interested to know how this case panned out.
When I started reading the PDF, I thought that the Plaintiff was being unreasonable, however I really think they have a solid case. In the end, too much stacks up in their favor.
Now, you could easily argue that they were both skewing an entire sub-genre of films, so there are bound to be similarities, but like I said, there are just too many of them.
The most shocking one being that he coincidentally wrote 90% of the film right after possibly having access to it.
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