[Diva Betsy Ross]

does the fact that they were sued for copying other scripts count? Ever heard of Dark Lady of the Sonnets?

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[wtc911]

I am a film maker and writer. I am very familiar with that issue. But, since Dark Lady was never produced and you could not therefore have seen it, how does that factor into your assessment of SIL as unoriginal? What films that you've seen did it copy? There must be some.

And a note on how these Hollywood concept theft things work...If even only one line is the same in both scripts the case is won. A playwrite successfully sued Spielberg for ET. Her one act play contained the line "ET phone home". Art Buchwald won $600k from the producers of Eddie Murphy's Coming to America on the basis of a one line idea he had written ten years earlier. The line was (paraphrase) Young African Prince comes to New York.