{"id":2623,"date":"2005-08-25T00:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2018-02-11T16:09:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:09:03","slug":"no-original-ideas-left-for-movie-lawsuits-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/25\/no-original-ideas-left-for-movie-lawsuits-either\/","title":{"rendered":"No Original Ideas Left for Movie Lawsuits, Either"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/LAW\/08\/23\/terminator2.lawsuit.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_new\">Court reinstates Terminator lawsuit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An appeals court has ruled that an Australian couple can sue director James Cameron over an effect used in the film &#8220;Terminator 2: Judgment Day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Filia and Constantinos Kourtis claim that they came up with the idea for a character that changes shape for a 1987 movie called &#8220;The Minotaur.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, ancient tribes from the British Isles have consulted their lawyers for the Kourtises&#8217; theft of the concept of the changeling, shapeshifting &#8220;monsters&#8221; who stole children (like the young John Connor&#8211;see?!) and ancient Greeks have filed preperatory paperwork on the title, which refers to a monster first slain by Theseus, whose story was told by entertainers in Athens before even James Cameron was born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court reinstates Terminator lawsuit: An appeals court has ruled that an Australian couple can sue director James Cameron over an effect used in the film &#8220;Terminator 2: Judgment Day.&#8221; Filia and Constantinos Kourtis claim that they came up with the idea for a character that changes shape for a 1987 movie called &#8220;The Minotaur.&#8221; Meanwhile, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19403,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/19403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}