13th July 2004, 11:55 AM
But that's hardly what happened. Yes, in cases where a work is SO close to the original as you suggest (nearly word for word with only a few things changed), it's grounds for a case, but in a case where a medium has the same basic ideas but the expression is totally different? No, not at all. If Moore had the SAME plotline as the book only in movie form with similar characters and all, that would be the case. But, this is more along the lines of Star Trek suing Babbelon 5.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)