fox on intellectual property
you won’t often find me siding with fox, but stranger things have (and will) happen. i saw this on the ap wire.
Chief Denies Fox Is Stealing Reality Shows [ap via abc news]Television is typically repetitive, she said.
“There are two boxing shows. There are three Amy Fisher movies. There are two Diana movies. This is the way television works,” she [Fox TV entertainment chief Gail Berman] said. “There’s nothing new about it.”
what’s new is the scope of copyright, not the behavior, and some lawyer thought they could carry this case under the current laws… or, at least, they convinced their bosses to pay them to try.
another lawyer has some thoughts as well: “Competition over derivatives only makes the derivatives better.”
i think many of the people that wander into my blog space probably share the opinion that, generally speaking, reality tv has plenty of room to “get better.”