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Ship Troopers.

Becuase it’s campy and gritty and funny and serious.

Airport and airline dependent. I’ve waited an hour and a half to check my car seat for a budget airline.

TSA are equal opportunity haters and don’t care if you got to the airport two hours ago and your flight is in 30 minutes. They tell you to get in their line 2 hours before your flight and by god sometimes they are gonna make you wait two hours.

Edit: oh yeah also waited an hour becuase my budget airline wouldn’t let me print boarding passes and said “see agent” but didn’t staff any agents. Turns out they want to make sure your one year old is actually a baby and you’re not just a cheapskate trying to hold a twelve year old in your lap.

Two issues, first, as noted above, copyright law in the US uses a substantial incorporation standard, not an “any work done under a heading is poisoned” heading.

Second- you’re assuming some substantial contractual rights here to wbtv’s work on the project. It sounds like they were in talks. So their contract is probably either minimal or the contract was their agreement for the IP on the original run and has some relevant terms.

I see your problem there. It’s not. The word derivative isn’t as broadly defined as in common use.

Haven’t you ever noticed tmnt and biker mice from mars are similar? Or Star Trek and Orville?

You realize 50 shades of grey started as a twighlight fanfic?

Why would “any work” done for the project be derivative of the underlying IP? Keep in mind we are under a substantial incorporation standard.

Looking at the two substantial incorporation doesn’t appear present.

I forgot that the estate owned these people’s minds, experience, working relationships and future products.

What is their argument apart from base slavery? That four people were hired to be creative, were creative, and ended up making a show?

Crichton gets rights to his creative work but not those four?

Anything I’m missing?

The girlfriend sounds really childish. To the point I’m wondering if these are very young people, like early teens. If so it isn’t that that don’t care, it’s that they’re very immature and don’t know how to deal with anything uncomfortable and just shove it out of the way and move on to what they can easily distract themselves with.

If this person is an adult, I’m very concerned about their maturity level, becuase it sounds really stunted.

There contention is they’ll find their case in discovery. Ie given enough time they can make it work.

I’m not sure why you view that as meaningful different than any medical drama.

Doctor, no … in the ass.

10 things I hate about you in the ass.

Have you tried one? It’s pretty good. It’s got mini pickles, mini wieners, hush money puppies, some and Im peaches topped with saffron and gold flakes. It’s what they serve at the grand estoria hotel to any guest who says “pardon” about themselves.