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BBM Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
Mikaela:
Well, if nothing else comes of this inane lawsuit at least I had good bemused fun reading about it, and even more so reading all the witty comments in this thread! ;D
And "thanks" to Oprah :-\ I don't even have to ask what being on the down low means; - her very so-so interview with the BBM cast cleared that one up for me one year ago. ::) Eeep, how time flies! Something Janice Scott-Blanton has completely failed to notice, it would seem.....
Lynne:
Nothing new here - just that The Advocate also has the story:
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid41457.asp
Toast:
Thanks Lynne for the text of the story as it appeared on a GAY site.
Our straight friends at FOX might get a field day out of this.
Obviously the Advocate did the usual thing and ran the story without any independent checking of the "facts" of the story. Don't they know the Brokeback timeline??
We all should email the Advocate letting them know that Annie Proulx did her writing before 1997, and that screenplays were circulated in 2003 and 2004 before the film was filmed in the first half of 2004.
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I think someone should check out the whole book.
Does her husband call his dick "Uncle Harold"?
Are there tires or tire-irons in the book?
Is there a mention of eating beans in her book?
Maybe there's a pup tent in the book, surely to god a pup.... or a horse.
Mmmmm???
Janice Scott-Blanton, M.Ed., is a native of Mobile, Alabama, is a former alcohol & drug clinician turned relationship author and columnist. She lives in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
She even has the handkerchief codes in her book.
Lynne:
30 January 2007
Author Janice Scott-Blanton filed $250 million lawsuit claiming there are too many coincidences between the film ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and her novel, ‘My Husband is on the Down Low and I Know About It’.
The similarities, she says, are evident in over 50 scenes in the movie, including the first sexual encounter between the two cowboys.
Publication dates may be of particular interest to the courts: Scott-Blanton’s novel came out in March 2005; Annie Proulx’s short story, later adapted into the film, was published in 1997. You do the math.
http://www.gcn.ie/content/templates/dailydish.aspx?articleid=1832&zoneid=2
Toast:
"The complaint alleges that similarities between her novel My Husband is on the Down Low and I Know About It and the Academy Award winning motion picture film Brokeback Mountain 2005, are more than coincidence."
I think Universal should act all scared, let her and her "lawyer" prove their case of the similarities, and then let the judge (and jury of her peers) decide how come her book is so much like Brokeback Mountain, which was an earlier publication. Maybe Universal could claim the $250,000,000 from her. Her husband might be down low, but how low is she?
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