Re: Harry Potter mini series

In article <i2008f$6i4$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, le@xxxxxxxxxxxx says...

Yellow <yell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: In article <i1t2ri$lpi$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, le@xxxxxxxxxxxx says...
:>
:> Yellow <yell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:
:> : I don't know much about Tolkien - loved the films but never could take
:> : to the books.
:>
:> I love the books and am deeply offended by the very IDEA of their being
:> filmed!
:
: Watching them wasn't compulsory but for me at least, they allowed me a
: glimpse of the Tolkien world that would otherwise have been denied to
: me.
:
: I have even thought about getting hold of a set of audio books and
: giving the books another go because I enjoyed the films so much.
:
: So not all bad? :-)
:
:
:>
:> : I even struggled getting through The Hobbit and only read
:> : that in the end so as to play a computer game that was popular in the
:> : 80s.
:> :
:> : But yes, protection beyond lifetimes is certainly a no-no in my opinion.
:>
:> I see corporate character type rights as being necessarily finite,
:> but the rights of authors to forbid explicitly contrary works using
:> their creations should be inheritable.
:>
:> If you want a "different interpretation" USE ORIGINAL NAMES AT THE VERY
:> LEAST.Don't take what a known person stated flat out with characters
:> that author came up with and feel entitled to contradict it in something
:> of your own.There are enough folktales of unknown origin to be
:> "reinterpretive" with...let original works stand "fair and square
:> without contradictions",as Tolkien put it.
:>
:> "Pay by the hour" work-for-hire on something you DIDN'T create doesn't
:> deserve the same protection as a creator's imagination.
:>
:
: Plenty of pay be the hour work is creative, just look at the
: manufacturing industry for millions of examples.

But assembly line workers don't own the designs they execute.

Manufacturing is not "assembly line workers". It is research, design and
then build.

Or do you really imagine that everything single thing you own or use or
come into contact with, from the electricity in the wires in your home
through to the shoes on your feet, spontaneously come into existence via
"assembly line workers"?




: To quote someone on the telly who was talking about 20th century design
: and struck a cord with me, design is simply art with constrains and (my
: spin) it is generally paid by the hour.

Neither do comic-book artists own characters they are hired to work on
by those who DO own the characters.

So?
.

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