History and Copyright

NY Times: Historical Epic Is Focus of Copyright Dispute: “In a letter this month, a lawyer for James Reston Jr., author of ‘Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade,’ accused the studio of violating American and international copyright law by using ‘events, characters, scenes, descriptions and character tensions’ in the film that were ‘strikingly similar’ to his narrative history.”
Scrivener’s Error: Children’s Crusade: “In a no-doubt unintentional bit of cognitive dissonance, today is the argument in MGM v. Grokster, concerning the theft—and that is the correct word—of musical recordings via the Internet, and who may be liable for that theft; and the alleged theft of ideas by Hollywood.”