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shinramyun
Joined: 31 Jul 2009
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 Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 1:05 am Post subject: Chinese author to sue James Cameron over Avatar |
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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/1020496/author-to-sue-james-cameron-over-avatar
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An unknown Chinese author is planning a $162 million lawsuit after claiming James Cameron plagiarised his story for the blockbuster Avatar.
Beijing man Zhou Shaomou claims he wrote a science-fiction novel called Tale Of The Blue Crows in 1997 which bears striking similarities to the plot of Cameron's film, Sky News reports.
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The book centres around a group of explorers who travel to a distant planet inhabited by blue-skinned beings, he said.
"I wrote in my novel that their space journey took them six years but in Cameron�s movie the journey takes them five years nine months and 22 days," he said.
"I was shocked when I first saw that � it is too close."
Zhou said he never thought he would get a publishing deal for the book so he released it online, where he claims it has been read by more than 10 million people.
He now plans to sue Cameron for $162 million in copyright infringement.
Zhou has reportedly tried twice to get his case heard in China but was denied both times.
Beijing-based lawyer Yang Huipeng told Sky News that Zhou would be better off taking his case to a US court, where any legal judgement would have greater effect. |
What a joker.  |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 1:11 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, good luck with that. |
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rocket_scientist
Joined: 23 Nov 2009
Location: Prague
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| Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 2:12 am Post subject: |
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| I thought Cameron ripped off The Blue Man Group but later changed my mind when the people in the film didn't fire free 97.9 Loop t-shirts out of a cannon onto the audience between periods. That would have been really good 3D. |
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shinramyun
Joined: 31 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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| James Cameron ripped off from disney. |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Because if it's anyone who respects copyright and protecting the creative works of others from infringement, certainly the first culture which comes to anyone's mind is the Chinese. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:25 am Post subject: |
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| Man, this guy has a very plausible suspicion and all you guys can do is side with the establishment and ridicule him |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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Dude needs to wait in line behind the guys who did Dances with Wolves, the Last Samurai, Pocahontas, the New World, hell, even Delgo:
http://www.movieline.com/2009/08/the-7-eeriest-parallels-between-avatar-and-delgo.php
And let's not forget Ferngully:
"Avatar's plot is virtually identical to Ferngully, a poop-for-brains, message-heavy kids' cartoon about pixies who must stop loggers from destroying their rainforest. One human pretends to be a pixie and falls in love with the pixies and discovers how precious their world is." |
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Deep Thirteen
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
Location: Swamp Land
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| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:45 am Post subject: |
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| I love it when Ferngully keeps getting brought up. I was invited to see Avatar the other night and said "I've seen Ferngully already 20 years ago." |
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