Originally published at: Top Gun filmmakers sued over sequel | Boing Boing
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I always figured they were inspired by this one:
(Not addressing the actual copyright issue, of course)
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“I feel the need; the need for greed!”
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I’m convinced contracts are largely a self-perpetuating grift, in that much of what people end up spending on lawyers seems to be a direct result of spending money on lawyers in the first place. This suit would be pretty tenuous if the original producers had never signed a contract with the magazine, but now that contract itself can become a gold mine of expensive argument, regardless of how silly the underlying claim is.
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Oh no, now you’ve done it.
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It may sound like a sovereign-citizeny point of view, but just think about it: “contract” → contractions → labor → socialism → Soviet communism. It’s like They want you to know.
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I was going to say, it is what they Navy school is called, at least colloquially. Which is where the title of the article got it. Which doesn’t seem like a copyrightable thing. Trademarkable, perhaps.
If this movie has nothing to do with the article other than the name - I feel like that is a pretty tenuous copyright claim.
Like the recent lawsuit against Mariah Carey for “All I want for Christmas is You”. That one is ridiculous.
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My joke was that, to libertarians, the contract is the highest form of document that can ever exist, to the point of having religious zeal about it. They want to build a civilization around it and nothing else.
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Usually fire. Or an invisibility spell.
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A fiddle-playing contest with the Devil?
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