“I am Legend” Copyright Infringement?
Posted: Friday, Jan 11, 2008 @ 9:48 am | Written by Renee C. Quinn | 1 Comment »|
Posted in: Copyright, Entertainment Industry, Guest Contributors, IPWatchdog.com Articles, Renee Quinn
EDITORIAL NOTE: This is the first in a two part series that will attempt to answer a hypothetical copyright infringement question surrounding the movie and book “I am Legend.” This post discusses the differences and similarities between the book and the movie and the next post (during the week of January 21, 2008) will address the law associated with determining whether there would have been copyright infringement. If you have not seen the movie or read the book “I am Legend,” and you plan to, you probably do not want to read this post until you have.
Last week my husband and I went to the movies to see Will Smith in “I am Legend.” I had received the book for Christmas and tried to get at least a third of the way through it before seeing the movie. I was surprised in reading only the first few chapters to learn that there were quite a few differences between the movie and the book.
This is something that I have been wanting to write for some time now and this past weekend, while I was watching football, I was reminded again by the ever present Subway commercials that their sandwiches are not at all what they seem to be, at least to me and my family. Pictured here is a sub as it is shown on the Subway website. This sandwich is not at all unlike the sandwiches that are shown in the Subway commercials. If you are a football fan I am sure that you have see these ads, typically proclaiming that Subway subs have “more meat.” Even if you are not a football fan I suspect that you have seen these commercials at one point in time or another. Jared, the guy who lost hundreds of pounds eating only Subway subs, has become something of a fixture on our TVs.
