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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
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Subject: re: Thomas Pynchon
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Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 04:09:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 25 04:09:30 1986
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> From:	brl-smoke!wmartin	(Will Martin)
 
> This was brought to mind by the mention of Pynchon's "V": We all heard,
> back when the movie was released, how the producers of "Blade Runner"
> paid that book's author (or copyright holder) for the use of that title
> on the movie, which was made based on a different novel (Dick's "Do
> Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", of course).
>
> Well, then: Did the producers of the TV series "V" pay Pynchon (or his
> agent, or the copyright holder) anything for using that title, since his
> book, "V", had come out long before that? Anybody ever hear anything
> about that?

At the risk of assuming that you aren't kidding with this posting,
no, no such arrangement was made, and for a very simple reason.
The tv series title is pronounced "vee", whereas Pynchon's book's
title is, as I understand it (I haven't read it), pronounced "five"
(and incidentally, the book title is "V.", not "V".).

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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