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the_villainess ([info]teratologist) wrote in [info]fandomwank,
@ 2004-06-23 13:28:00
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Current mood:cranky

Bradbury/Moore wank update
I know that BBC just got us all with that three-headed frog thing, but I still trust them more than WingnutDaily, and they're reporting the Bradbury/Moore kerfuffle as true.

Bradbury said he would rather avoid litigation and is "hoping to settle this as two gentlemen, if he'll shake hands with me and give me back my book and title".

I'm sure he rather would avoid litigation, since he'd have to get the omg intarnet lawyer.

(Notice how bravely I'm acting as though everything's fine, although Everything's Changed.)


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[info]snarl
2004-06-23 05:41 pm UTC (link)
Oh, Ray. Don't let the spirit of Harlan Ellison possess you!

Still, I'd be all in favor if he'd said he wanted to settle it like two gentleman.

With a pistol duel at sunset!

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[info]teratologist
2004-06-23 05:54 pm UTC (link)
Hmmm... shaky old dude vs. hard-to-miss wide dude.... could get interesting.

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[info]darkwitch666
2004-06-23 05:46 pm UTC (link)
Hereafter be it known by all and sundry that teh internet lawyer (points to icon) admires ur bravery and courageousnessness and is following the case, very interested to see if Moore gets his ass kicked or Bradbury just gives up rather than go to court.

/transcription


OMG it's scary in this brave new world Everything's fine. Just fine.

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[info]hylian_shadow
2004-06-23 06:07 pm UTC (link)
Yay! It's teh internet lawyer! XD

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[info]silvernutmeg
2004-06-23 05:56 pm UTC (link)
"if he'll shake hands with me and give me back my book and title"

Wow, I totally missed the part where Michael Moore stole Ray Bradbury's manuscript, plus fifty years of galleys and proofs and whatnot, and then hired a bunch of people to go around to houses and libraries and confiscate everyone's copies of The Book That Cannot Be Named Because Michael Moore Stole the Title, God Damn It. Shouldn't the BBC be reporting on that instead? :D

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[info]electric_sheep
2004-06-23 05:59 pm UTC (link)
Michael Moore: Intellectual Property Ninja!

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[info]ahiru
2004-06-23 06:49 pm UTC (link)
I would so watch that if it was a TV show. "Tonight on Intellectual Property Ninja: Michael Moore tries to steal the US Constitution and replace it with....soap!"

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[info]kijikun
2004-06-23 06:52 pm UTC (link)
It have higher rantings than the super bowl!

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[info]imaginary_fiend
2004-06-23 07:20 pm UTC (link)
Not if the Super-bowl can arrange another "Wardrobe Malfunction."

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[info]electric_sheep
2004-06-23 07:07 pm UTC (link)
Every week Ray Bradbury and teh Intarweb lawyer hunt Moore down to a different place in the world but he gives them the slip by wearing a red wig.

I smell Emmies!

Oh wait. That's not an Emmy. Ew.

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[info]silvernutmeg
2004-06-23 07:22 pm UTC (link)
How long do you suppose it would be before anyone noticed?

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[info]skarrow
2004-06-23 05:58 pm UTC (link)
Ray, no! Don't wank! You'll make my childhood cry!

Yes, it's similar. It's supposed to be! Ray, open your eyes.. it's all an allusion!

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[info]phosfate
2004-06-23 06:03 pm UTC (link)
Sort of like a huge-ass chunk of Mr B's own titles.

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[info]cesare
2004-06-23 06:21 pm UTC (link)
New, non-playgiarized title suggestions for Something Wicked This Way Comes:

Dude, Where's My Soul?
Warning: This Book Contains a Character Named Mr. Dark; I Am Not Even Shitting You
Two Kids and a Scary-Ass Circus Man
Blah Blah Carnival, Blah Blah Halloween
Somebody All Stealin' Souls and Shit
Nostalgic Ultraviolet Prose Pile #17

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[info]teratologist
2004-06-23 06:28 pm UTC (link)
Warning: This Book Contains a Character Named Mr. Dark; I Am Not Even Shitting You

So funny... can't breath....

How about:

If You Wait For the Movie Version, At Least You Get Jonathan Pryce

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2004-06-23 09:47 pm UTC (link)
I still have trouble getting my head around the fact that THE MOUSE produced that movie I mean...jiggity-whoa.

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[info]yadda
2004-06-23 06:48 pm UTC (link)
*Snort* Deletion/tos-ing always makes us funnier.

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[info]phosfate
2004-06-23 08:49 pm UTC (link)
Oh. Oh, ow. Swallowed chunk of sammich. Owie. Ow. Ow.

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[info]skarrow
2004-06-23 10:15 pm UTC (link)
The Merry-go-Round Counts Down.

...wait, that's an allusion, too.

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[info]lots42
2004-06-24 12:00 am UTC (link)
http://img46.photobucket.com/albums/v140/Lots42/Bradbury.jpg

Second to last suggestion just inspired moi

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[info]cesare
2004-06-24 12:11 am UTC (link)
Ahaha! Niiiiiiice.

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[info]chaobell
2004-06-23 06:09 pm UTC (link)
Ray, Ray, Ray. I love you dearly, but last time I checked (which was, admittedly, a while back), as long as the content isn't ripped off, you can't copyright a title. I could write a novel entitled Fahrenheit 451 about a broiler whose thermostat is a little off-kilter, and you could scream "OMG PLAGERIZM" till you were blue in the face. And that's about all you could do.

Don't wank, Ray. Please don't wank.

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[info]kijikun
2004-06-23 06:54 pm UTC (link)
Isn't Ray.....dead? No wait that Hitchcock.

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[info]lovelypoet
2004-06-23 06:57 pm UTC (link)
Maybe Moore made the same mix-up and that's why he didn't call back.

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[info]kijikun
2004-06-23 07:01 pm UTC (link)
That explains everything! *grin*

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[info]lovelypoet
2004-06-23 06:56 pm UTC (link)
I checked relatively recently and that was still the case. Titles remain up for grabs until someone gets a trademark (like "Sesame Street"), most authors will try to avoid exact same titles to spare themselves confusion, but intertextuality/allusion/parody do not require permission.

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[info]chash
2004-06-23 06:10 pm UTC (link)
*lights a candle for your stunning bravery*

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[info]telesilla
2004-06-23 06:41 pm UTC (link)
*admires [info]teratologist's stiff upper wank*

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[info]deoridhe
2004-06-23 06:15 pm UTC (link)
*cries* It's Dandilion Wank!

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[info]phosfate
2004-06-23 08:48 pm UTC (link)
You mean "Dandelion Whine."

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[info]deoridhe
2004-06-23 08:53 pm UTC (link)
Makes me want sweet sweet cheese...

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[info]starfish
2004-06-23 06:58 pm UTC (link)
That's just ... rilly rilly stoopid, Ray. Aside from the fact that it's not even the SAME (duh!), does the word "hommage" ring any bells?

::wonders if Mr. Bradbury needs to re-read the book in question, as well::

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[info]littlest_lurker
2004-06-23 10:24 pm UTC (link)
Or parody, for that matter?

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