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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.movies
Subject: Re: The Terminator vs. Harlan Ellison
Message-ID: <5921@duke.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 11:32:34 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 12 11:32:34 1985
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Reply-To: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
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Summary: 

In article <981@trwatf.UUCP> root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) writes:
>In article <2818@nsc.UUCP> chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>> off their short story 'Brillo' about a robot cop. ....
>
>How do you differentiate between rip-offs and coincidence?  The idea of a robot
>cop doesn't sound so obtuse to gaurentee another writer won't think of it
>again... and invent story lines around it.

In the Bova/Ellison case, the network had bought Brillo with a creative
control clause for ellison and bova -- ellison and bova came to realize
that the network was making crap from a pretty good story, and couldn't
get them to stop, so they withdrew the story.  The network made the show
anyway, trying to use just this argument.  And lost.
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			Charlie Martin
			(...mcnc!duke!crm)