Dispute Over Nude Nuns Copyright Leads To Second Firm Copying First Firm's Lawsuit
from the copyright-gone-mad dept
We recently wrote about the lawsuit that was filed against 5,865 alleged downloaders of the B-movie Nude Nuns With Big Guns by Camelot Distribution Group. In many ways, the lawsuit seemed like many of the other mass infringer shakedown lawsuits… but there was one element that made it interesting. A second company, Incentive Capital, said that Camelot didn’t hold the copyright in question. Basically, Camelot had borrowed money from Incentive in order to purchase the copyright to the movie in question, but failed to payback the loan and Incentive had foreclosed on the film.
Camelot continued to push forward with the lawsuit and, in an amusing twist, Incentive Capital has filed an almost identical lawsuit against the exact same 5,865 alleged downloaders:
Filed Under: copyright, lawsuits
Companies: camelot distribution group, incentive capital
Comments on “Dispute Over Nude Nuns Copyright Leads To Second Firm Copying First Firm's Lawsuit”
note to self
Google at home: Nude Nuns With Big Guns. Done.
Im too forgetful for all that, so I just googled it from work. Oopths
It's the little things
At least they changed the font. That should probably avoid the lawsuit for lawsuit copyright infringement.
Re: It's the little things
All lawsuits should be filed in comic sans, the best font ever invented.
Re: Re: It's the little things
no, wingdings … It would be easier to read than most of the legal drivel I’ve seen
Re: Re: Re: It's the little things
Or just send the text to
http://ssshotaru.homestead.com/files/aolertranslator.html
Hilarity ensues!
So how does double jeopardy apply to copyright infringement?
Re: Re:
So how does double jeopardy apply to extortion?
FTFY
God praise thee copyright
It’s good that we have copyright to protect such embattled forms of artistic expression as b-grade. nunspoitation revenge movies. This heaven-sanctified genre is barely surviving, due to the demonic threat of pirates, almost impelling a person to take action in the way of the films noble protagonist and dress up as a nun and hunt down all of those 5,865 infringers one by one.
See the trailer here
(Poe’s Law disclaimer: the above is not meant to be taken seriously)
I just got here...
Tied up at work and all that. Is it too late to stake a claim as the “exclusive United States distributor of the motion picture titled Nuns with Guns“?
I’m more than willing to get in on one of the few movies to make nearly all of its money in the courtroom rather than the theater. I can even provide various nuns and/or guns should they be needed for evidence. At least, I assume I can. If I get a school bus and some guns, the rest should all go off without a hitch.
no no no its not all a money grab… nothing to see here…
*boggle*
Actually, in Israel there were several suits regarding copyright in legal documents
Well,
Under Israeli law, there were four prominent cases involved lawyers copying from other lawyers their suits. In three cases the courts ruled that the defendants violated copyright (Calderon v. Alon, Azgad v. Shpiglman and Goldhammer v. Segal) and rejected in once (Soroker-Agmon v. Artman).
The case of Artman was different as the court acknowledged that there are certain legal documents that lack originality. It was quite interesting to find out, and might be of interest here.