Is anybody else tired of this sort of crap?
James, Selbonaut, Vin, Feed The Dog, weigh in here on this.
The way teaches that the more laws we have the more crimes there are. I'm glad there is so much law about copyright, and copy protection - soon we can all be criminals just for reading, writing, and thinking.
As Megadeth bellicosely declares: "Next thing you know, they’ll take my thoughts away"
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Can you legally post that?
Sigh... Yet another lawsuit of people trying to make money from someone elses success. The points listed in the article suggest there isn't much to this. That and I can't really see this going far because it would likely create a nasty precedant that would restrain fiction writers from writing..... well pretty much anything. Everything ever written draws on or roughly resembles something that came before. Unless there is blatant plagerism involved I don't think these guys have a chance. Of course I don't have a law background, but thats the way I see it.
I agree, it is (hopefully) going nowhere, but has the power of greed gotten so powerful? Has the value of truth and knowledge fallen so far that this sort of thing will now be commonplace? What can we do about it?
Hmmm. Unless your 'non-fiction' book is a memoir, I don't see how you can sue a novelist for using your 'facts'.
Of course, Baigent et al could admit that they made it all up. Then maybe the suit would have merit.
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