
So when are they going to make a film of Zenith?
Huh?
Huh?
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Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:41,
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Huh?
Huh?

And the likelihood of a movie version is nil, unfortunately.
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Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:47,
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1: 2000ad/Fleetway/Rebellion claim complete ownership of 'Zenith', but Grant Morrison has filed legal papers denying their claim.
2: The books featured many older UK superheroes (or subtle variations) that Morrison believed were no longer in copyright.
He was wrong.
3: In the early 90's, Eclipse comics threatened 2000ad with copyright infringement. They were the then "owners" of Marvelman/Miracleman & stated, quite rightly, that 'Zenith' had borrowed heavily from their character - which it later turned out that they didn't actually own. But that's a story for another day..
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Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:07,
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2: The books featured many older UK superheroes (or subtle variations) that Morrison believed were no longer in copyright.
He was wrong.
3: In the early 90's, Eclipse comics threatened 2000ad with copyright infringement. They were the then "owners" of Marvelman/Miracleman & stated, quite rightly, that 'Zenith' had borrowed heavily from their character - which it later turned out that they didn't actually own. But that's a story for another day..

My favourite blatant infringement was the Dredd story "The Cursed Earth".
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Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:09,
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and Richard Branson
Tribs, what did the cursed earth story infringe on?
Though personally, I think claims of copyright infringement on characters and stories is on shaky ground unless it's a direct copy. Nothing new under the sun and all that.
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Tue 2 Nov 2010, 14:51,
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Tribs, what did the cursed earth story infringe on?
Though personally, I think claims of copyright infringement on characters and stories is on shaky ground unless it's a direct copy. Nothing new under the sun and all that.