Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp

Welcome to my blog post that is for my Advanced Law class, so this really has nothing to do with whom, what, where, or why my film is still not being funded by any rich people. So, on to the assignment that's supposed to involve my industry and my industry being film. So, I guess back in the day there's this company named Doubleday back in the 70's wrote a book on WW2 and granted exclusive rights to the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp, basically saying only they can use the books content. So, they made a WW2 television show and I guess it was great... shit if I know I wasn't even born yet! So, I guess there's a time limit on a copyrights cause Doubleday renewed there shit, but Fox on the other hand didn't, so the rights for the television show where left in the public domain. (Click the link if you don't understand!) 1988 came and Fox bought the rights to television show and in 1995 this company called Dastar released a video set from the original footage from the television show that Fox did. Anyways Fox filled suit and under the Lanham Act  claiming that Dastar was "reverse passing off". (Yeah I had to look that up too) So, Fox won and I hope that's what you wanted teach and if you know anyone who has a million laying around willing to invest, tell him about my film.
Thanks
Kevin Out!

Big Week coming up!

Dear nobody
Well hope your listening... LOL I will soon figure out how to find followers and work this RSS feed shit sometime this lifetime, but intel then I guess it's just you and me computer screen. And might I mention that your looking awfully dirty today. Well on to the topic of this upcoming week, now how can this week be so big compared to all the big weeks in my life. Well I'm glad you asked, for this week is the week that I set up a time to phone conference with a film investing firm in Boston. Her name is Vinca from Film Finance LLC and we've talked once and this relationship via email has almost drove me crazy with my business partner. To explain my insanity, we'd have to go back to the initial contact with Vinca and I hadn't heard from Vinca for quiet a while after the phone call. Now how it's put a strain on the relationship between my business partner and I, well after Vinca sent me an email enquiring her upcoming film pitch festival, I replied with a get in or out type of email on the whole investment of the film. Vinca replied with an interest in the script, so my agent wanted me to wait till the writer has looked over the script and touched it up, as my business partner wanted me to wrap up the script and get it to her asap. What did I do? I sent off the rough copy the following monday and still had the writer look over the script that we had so far. As the writer and I passed the script back and forth, my business partner still thinks this was the right move even though my agent told me different. For my business partners argument was that it's better for that script to get to her as the idea of our film is still in her head and it shows that we're professional and we had our shit together. When the writer (Sorry forgot to mention his name, John Gallagher) and I got finished with the script, I knew what I did in sending the script early was the wrong idea. So, with my agent and me agreeing to send a email saying sorry there was a mix up in communication on the script hopefully repaired the mistake that might come back to hurt me. I recently wrote Vinca seeing if she received the correct email with the correct script. She did and said she would be in contact this week to discuss the film and that's why this is a BIG week for me, cause if she comes through and funds the movie God Bless my soul I'm going to have to go to work on something I finally love.

kevin out!

Is it the economy or has bad apples ruined it for the good people?

The whole thing about trying to raise money for a film is the most frustrating thing in the world it seems like. Calling friends and family, but most of us aren't rich to be able to fund the movie all by our selves. So, we give away percentage points, which are points in comparison to the amount of money that movie generates, which pays the investor back. So, investors have the incentive to make money, but why does it seem that no one is willing to invest? I'm confident and have the passion to make this film, but is that enough? Has America gotten so low that even the good people get fucked? Being a man of your word us to mean something, but that is a thing of the past as street code has faded and sell outs are the soul survivors of a generation that took advantage of older generations trust. So, now I'm in a fucking dilemma, for my school is almost up and it's been two months since we've got the investment package done and the script all finished, but still nothing. My agent tells me this is just a process and that usually deals just don't work out right away, but I don't have time to waste. When college is up, what do I do? Get a job at a local thrift store  to scrape bye as my film isn't my main focus anymore, as so much paying my bills is. Frustration is a word to use in this situation, but I'm not going to use that word, the word that describes this situation is George as in George W. Bush. Obama never had a chance to turn the economy around after the way G.W. tore that shit up. Now no one will trust anyone anymore, so for that G.W. I hope you crash in your G6 in my front lawn, so I could wake up in the morning and piss on the fires to help the fire department put out the blaze.
Kevin out!