Comments for Displacement of Concepts http://robert.heverly.org/blog Writings on technology, media, law and society Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:44:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 Comment on Strange Reasoning by Scamp http://robert.heverly.org/blog/?p=13#comment-17 Scamp Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:22:14 +0000 http://robert.heverly.org/blog/?p=13#comment-17 Hi, really enjoyed your post, sorry I might be really really late commenting on it. Anyway... I doubt I'm going to beat a lawyer when it comes to arguing but... here goes! 1)Regarding whether a creative can legitimately adapt a book or a film... I meant in terms of creative integrity, not legality! Obviously I wouldn't say they should do it if such adaptation were illegal. You and other lawyers better judges of that than me. 2) The good cause angle. I agree that WCRS made money on the job, so less of a good cause for them. But their client, Transport for London, is a government body and they are motivated purely by saving lives, so maybe the 'good cause' argument can validly be applied to them, at least. That's it. Did I win? Hi, really enjoyed your post, sorry I might be really really late commenting on it.

Anyway… I doubt I’m going to beat a lawyer when it comes to arguing but… here goes!

1)Regarding whether a creative can legitimately adapt a book or a film… I meant in terms of creative integrity, not legality! Obviously I wouldn’t say they should do it if such adaptation were illegal. You and other lawyers better judges of that than me.

2) The good cause angle. I agree that WCRS made money on the job, so less of a good cause for them. But their client, Transport for London, is a government body and they are motivated purely by saving lives, so maybe the ‘good cause’ argument can validly be applied to them, at least.

That’s it. Did I win?

]]> Comment on Sometimes Location Matters by Displacement of Concepts » Blog Archive » Strange Reasoning http://robert.heverly.org/blog/?p=12#comment-7 Displacement of Concepts » Blog Archive » Strange Reasoning Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:04:14 +0000 http://robert.heverly.org/blog/?p=12#comment-7 [...] reflected in “Elanco Products v. Mandops,” which I’ve written about recently here. The point is that in the U.K. starting from someone else’s work and changing it does not a [...] […] reflected in “Elanco Products v. Mandops,” which I’ve written about recently here. The point is that in the U.K. starting from someone else’s work and changing it does not a […]

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