Posted on 08/17/2019 1:59:50 PM PDT by knarf
Like a song that won't leave my head, I am looking for the movie where in a courtroom scene, the opening to "A Tale Of Two Cities" is used in (I think) a copyright case.
Is the word WAS copy righted ?
Is the word THE copy righted ?
As I recall the argument was not the words protected, but the way the author put them together.
This is really bugging me.
I've been the last over an hour looking for it.
FREEPERS know everything
Can you give us a little more of a hint?
Actors?
Era?
Anything?
Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities in 1859. Copyright law does not provide forever protection. The copyright for A Tale of Two Cities expired after 117 years. 1859+117 = 1976.
Then there was that smash hit “A Sale of Two ...”, well, it was funny in high school.
Boston Legal????
That's what boggles me.
It is a relatively contemporary (1970's, 80's, 90's ... guessing) flic, and it is an actor (male) examining another (I think another male) in the manner of "And Justice For All"
I've been all through the Hoffman's and Pacino's and others and just can't find it.
What I remember is the examiner is forcing the respondent to agree that the individual words are not protected but that when put together, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times", the words now become protected.
see #8
I WAS reminded of the greatest courtroom scene ever filmed, mostly in two takes ...
Gregory Peck closing in "To Kill A Mockingbird"
But the subject of this thread is what is maddening me.
“Seven days in May”?
Google court room movies there is an entire list of them!!! Maybe you will recognize it!!!
No, that wasn’t it .... thanx.
I saw it not to long ago so I am going to keep tossing out the movies I saw fairly recently....the original “Manchurian Candidate”?
I'm still surfin' youtube
You saw the movie I can’t remember ?
Flash of Genius
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