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officerhaughty — 9 years ago(May 02, 2016 12:11 PM)
By that logic, everyone who writes a book or movie about vampires would be sued, since someone else has already done it first
This random-people-fighting-to-the-death stuff is not a new concept. It's been done many times by many different people. If Miss Collins would be sued, then so would the person who wrote Battle Royal by whomever wrote about it before he did, and so would that person, and then that person, and so on. You can't sue someone for writing something vaguely similar to your product (I mean you can, but you'd have no case), otherwise everyone would be suing everyone. -
!!!deleted!!! (49761343) — 9 years ago(May 08, 2016 04:39 PM)
This random-people-fighting-to-the-death stuff is not a new concept.
Name all the other stories in which innocent, defenseless teenagers are being forced to fight each other to the death for the benefit of a dictatorial government. That's exactly what both THG and BR are about. If you can point to at least one other novel that preceded both and matches this plot point for point, you can declare victory.
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officerhaughty — 9 years ago(May 09, 2016 05:34 PM)
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!!!deleted!!! (49761343) — 9 years ago(May 21, 2016 05:20 AM)
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls004083307/
LOL, posts a lists in which none of the movies are about TEENAGERS being forced by a dictatorial government to kill each other until one is left standing, according to the same intricate rules of the game found in both BR and THG.
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officerhaughty — 9 years ago(May 22, 2016 04:36 PM)
So both happen to be teenagers. So what? The age isn't the relevant part; the fighting to the death stuff is. The characters' age is a minor detail. You may as well argue that both copied Saved by the Bell since that show had teenagers in it
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!!!deleted!!! (49761343) — 9 years ago(May 08, 2016 04:33 PM)
You're aware two people can come up with the same idea independently
I agree. There's no such thing as plagiarism. Every time there are two works that are more or less identical, it's not that the second person copied from the other; it's that by sheer coincidence, someone wrote a story, and then a few years later, someone else wrote a story that matched the first one in terms of characters, plot points and settings. Because that can totally happen.
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officerhaughty — 9 years ago(May 09, 2016 05:36 PM)
Oh, well, in that case the person who wrote BR is also a plagiarist since there have already been books/movies about strangers being forced to kill each other. In fact, let's not stop there. All books about vampires are plagiarism, since it's already been done; as are all soap operas, reality shows, books about romance, etc.
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Btrixkiddo35 — 9 years ago(January 07, 2017 04:16 AM)
Yeah leave the legal stuff to the attorneys and shut it down about Battle Royale already. Having similar ideas/plots is not grounds for a lawsuit according to the law, that's already been determined by the gov otherwise we'd have frivolous lawsuits all day long. This is why it hasn't gone to court. Time to move on.