Seen at SpoilerTV.com:
NBC has a comedy pilot about “a group of sci-fi fanboys in a small town who shoot their own version of a canceled tv show” titled “Our Show”.
That is an amazingly cool and funny idea, rife with possibility for twists and insider geek humor! I wish I’d thought of it!
Oh, right. I did.
So do I root for it to succeed so we get more fan-themed media out there, a la Big Bang Theory? Or do I go with the they-stole-my-idea route that hardens and eventually embitters me into creating an armored suit with plasma-powered whips so I can have my greasy-haired revenge by going to Monaco and trashing NBC’s race cars during the race? Does NBC even have cars in that race?
Hmm. Tough call. I’ll get back to you.
It is unfortunate, but you can’t copyright ideas. This is the lesson that the folks who made “Repo the Genetic Opera” learned this past weekend.
But you can have a little revenge when years later people may remember your idea and not the crappy ripoff. IF it is a crappy ripoff. Let’s hope so.
As sad as it sounds, there wouldn’t be much you could do. “Copyright is the set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work.” the idea is yours, but you didn’t write any scripts, or anything. So the work isn’t yours.
Sorry.
YOu could start a fan protest, and maybe gain notoriety as ‘that guy’ at a bunch of cons. Not THAT guy, the other one.
YOu could start a fan protest, and maybe gain notoriety as ‘that guy’ at a bunch of cons. Not THAT guy, the other one.