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Judge Rules Fox Has Copyright Claim To Watchmen 262

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 25, 2008 @08:44PM from the there-are-ways-of-telling dept.

fermion writes "According to the NYT, a judge has decided that Fox owns the copyright to Watchmen, not Warner. Is this an example of copyright law becoming so complex that companies can abuse the court system to prevent competition, or just extreme incompetence by Warner? In the current business environment, either explanation is believable. Yet it is unbelievable that seasoned producers would spend hundreds of millions of dollars to create a movie that they can't even release. It seems the judge didn't want to bring this to a jury, and maybe daring Warner to appeal, or Fox to settle." The article says that Fox acquired movie rights to the Watchmen story in the late 1980s, but budget disputes and personnel changes have muddied the waters; Wikipedia has a bit more on the "development hell" which has plagued the film project.

Last Major Supplier Calls It Quits For VHS 308

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 25, 2008 @05:40PM from the one-death-after-another dept.

thefickler writes "The last major supplier of VHS videotapes is ditching the format in favor of DVD, effectively killing the format for good. This uncharitable commentator has this to say: 'Will VHS be missed? Not ... with videos being brittle, clunky, and rather user-unfriendly. But they ushered in a new era that was important to get to where we are today. And for that reason, the death of VHS is rather sad. Almost as sad as the people still using it.'" At least my dad's got the blank-tape market cornered.

Comment Re:Missing their market (Score 1) 172

by Eerikki on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @05:21AM (#21347391) Attached to: Original Marvel Comics Going Online

Snippet from blog about this (http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=92159514&blogID=328322464):

Are new books going to be showing up as they're published?
John Dokes: Not as they're published. There's probably going to be about a six-month lag between the time a book appears in print and the time it appears in this service. In some cases, we will have books that are more recent than that, but that will be specifically promoting what's happening in the print books.

So, digital media will be there 6 months after the comics, with current release schedules that's around the time the trade paperbacks are already out. Thanks but no thanks. I'll stick to torrents for new releases and albums for the good ones.

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