[PW] Ghost-Written Famous Quotations

[Charles Early]

Doesn't Ellison have a clause in his contracts that if he is unhappy with 
the final version of a script he has the right to have his name taken off 
the credits and replaced with the pseudonym Cordwainer Bird?

At 11:54 AM 6/25/2007, you wrote:
>I think the successful suit/billboard/Harlan Ellison case involved
>FUTURE COP's plagiarism of his co-written story "Brillo."  See:
>
>www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,920880-2,00.html
>
>Ellison already has made plans to spend part of his award on a billboard
>overlooking Paramount. It will read, he says, "We caught them with their
>hand in my pockets. Writers, take heart. Don't let them steal from you."
>
>Don't recall if he actually put up the planned billboard or not, though.
>
>
>Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu
>
>
>
>At 03:19 PM 6/23/2007, you wrote:
> >At 12:24 PM 6/23/2007, snopes wrote:
> >
> > ><<Don't forget Harlan Ellison's famous Star Trek incident. He wasn't
> > >credited at all, and was apparently the first
> > >Hollywood write to successfully sue. He used his winnings to put up a very
> > >expensive billboard
> > >announcing this victory. . . .>>
> > >
> > >Eh?  The only "Star Trek" incident involving Harlan Ellison that I'm aware
> > >of involved his script for the "City on the Edge of Forever" episode, for
> > >which he was indeed fully credited.  He just didn't like way his original
> > >story was rewritten, so when the episode was nominated for a Hugo 
> Award, he
> > >submitted his original script (rather than the rewritten version used for
> > >television).  There was no lawsuit involved.
> >
> >
> >Harlan has been involved in a number of lawsuits, but I don't believe he had
> >one regarding "Star Trek".  wasn't the first screenwriter ever to sue
> >and win.
> >One that's quite famous and still stands as precedent is Desny v. Wilder,
> >regading 1951's "Ace in the Hole", which greatly predates "Star Trek".  And
> >Harlan was definitely credited on his "Star Trek" episode.
> >
> >The comment sounds more like it's regarding Harlan's suit over the movie
> >"Terminator".  Jim Cameron gave an interview saying the film was inspired
> >in part by two episodes of "The Outer Limits":  "Demon with the Glass
> >Hand" and "Soldier", both of which were written by Harlan.  My memory
> >says that Harlan did put up a billboard or somesuch declaring victory
> >(although memory says it was a settlement and not a court decision).  But
> >in doing so, he violated the terms of the settlement and they had to go back
> >and re-work out everything.
> >
> >Craig.
> >
> >
> >
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