13th July 2004, 5:25 AM
Maybe he disagrees with Moore's point of view.
Had it been done as a parody movie it would be different, but Moore was obviously trying to create a clear link between his movie and Ray Bradbury's book. At the very least it's on the very edge of the copyright laws.
It would be like if I created a series of games called "Pokeman", that was almost exactly like Pokemon, and tried to sell it. Nintendo would be all over me in a second and they'd likely win.
Quote:So it's idiotic to complain when someone copies a title of one of your works and makes a very clear attempt to have people attribute the qualitites of your work to the situation in the new one? Umm...
Had it been done as a parody movie it would be different, but Moore was obviously trying to create a clear link between his movie and Ray Bradbury's book. At the very least it's on the very edge of the copyright laws.
It would be like if I created a series of games called "Pokeman", that was almost exactly like Pokemon, and tried to sell it. Nintendo would be all over me in a second and they'd likely win.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.