Internationally renowned artist Roger Dean has posted the following:
In November 2012 I filed a claim against the makers of Avatar for breach of copyright but in September of last year a Federal Judge ruled in favor of a motion to dismiss, meaning I was shut out from pursuing the claim to trial.
It was a very disappointing Judgment. Anyone denied a full hearing in this way would probably feel the same. But many people who had supported my quest for justice, thought it a shallow, dismissive and somewhat shabby ruling.
I remain convinced that Avatar plundered my life’s work to a far greater degree than might be explained as “influence” or “reference” and have no regrets about taking up the fight. Recently I was sent a link to a blog that commented on my court case and it was a considerable comfort to me, to read an American academic’s reasoned view that the judge had got it wrong.
The judgment itself is a matter of public record.
Stephen Carlisle, who wrote the blog, has written a number of other interesting blogs on copyright and I thought this was an important one:-
Copying Is Not Creativity! Why Creative Artists Don’t Need the Public Domain
Stephen Carlisle
February 27, 2015
Copying Is Not Creativity! Why Creative Artists Don’t Need the Public Domain
Stephen Carlisle
February 27, 2015