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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Megaman89 (talk | contribs) at 04:47, 9 August 2007 (→‎Copyright Issues). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

In the section marked "Copyright Issues" I;ve deleted the following two sentences - "Moore and O'Neill have a bad reputation of playing fast and loose with copyright law. The first volume of League led to a lawsuit against Twentieth Century Fox wherein Moore had to testify for ten hours in a deposition."

The first sentence is just not true, and it's a generalisation with no citation. In fact if you read ANY interview with either Moore or O'Neill about the League series it is clear the significant consideration they give to copyright issues.

The second sentence is incorrect, Alan Moore had to testify because of _plagiarism_ issues. And in particular in the League _Movie_ and it was nothing to do with _copyright_ issues in comic. 65.74.205.62 15:54, 8 August 2007 (UTC) damiantgordon[reply]

Um, dude, plagiarism means you violated someone's copyright. English is your friend.Megaman89 17:03, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
With the greatest of respect "copyright" is a means by which you can ensure that an idea is recognised as being yours whereas "plagarism" means passing off another person's ideas as your own and it doesn't matter in the slightest if the other person has a copyright on the idea or not, so, for example, I could say I wrote the complete works of Shakespeare and submit them to a book publisher, this would be _plagairism_ but is not a violation of someone's copyright (since the copyright on the works of shakespeare have expired). Similarly, in the case of the lawsuit against Fox and the League movie by Martin Poll and Larry Cohen, the creators of "Cast of Characters", they didn't write a full script, they made a movie pitch, the whole point of pitching a plot of a movie is that nothing is written down, therefore there is no violation of the writer's union rules, but also no possiblity of copyright, if you see what I mean. 65.74.205.62 21:14, 8 August 2007 (UTC) damiantgordon[reply]
Except you are wrong about your position like most Wikipeeps. CAST OF CHARACTERS was indeed a script. So I don't see what you mean. You are 100% wrongMegaman89 04:47, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Also if you check out wikipedia's page on copyright infringment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement), it has the following statement publishing someone else's original copy work and claiming you have made it. (This is known as plagiarism and is completely different to copyright infringement, but laws concerning it come under the section of copyright law in some countries) 65.74.205.62 21:30, 8 August 2007 (UTC) damiantgordon[reply]
So which is it- completely different or the same under the law? I guess YOU made the mistakeMegaman89
Megaman, realize when you're beat, or did your first banning not sink in? Kuralyov 00:42, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This isn't a contest, but as a loser I can see why you think it is. How did you enjoy your ban, Chimpy? I laughed and used another account. Mine was called RusskieFool1234. See if you can find what I did.Megaman89 04:47, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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