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  • Chicagoan: I own rights to '1984'

    03/28/2007 1:26:02 PM PDT · by Borges · 37 replies · 175+ views
    Chicago Sun Times ^ | March 28, 2007 | Lynn Sweet
    WASHINGTON -- The rights to George Orwell's novel 1984 -- the inspiration for an Apple computer ad pirated by a Barack Obama supporter who remodeled it into an attack on Hillary Rodham Clinton -- are owned by Gina Rosenblum, a West Rogers Park resident who is president of Rosenblum Productions Inc. A reason Apple probably did not complain about the Orwellian spot appropriated by Philip de Vellis -- a Democratic political operative -- is that the company didn't have the right to use it in the first place. It ran only during the 1984 Super Bowl because Rosenblum sent a...