Money Talk.. Why no new series?
POSTED BY: seryn
UPDATED: Saturday, January 7, 2006 02:16
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Yep. The US legal system is a funny thing...
Even if FOX did say that, without that statement in writing and signed by someone at FOX with legal authority to do so, I would bet noone will touch it.
Example of US legal system: Dangerous activities wavers. It doesn't matter in the US if you sign one saying you will not sue in the event you are injured doing something you have been EXPLICITLY warned is dangerous...
Say I sign a waver that I understand that bungee jumping is dangerous and I hold the people who are providing me with the equipment to jump not responsible if I get hurt doing it.
Well, if I do get hurt, I (or my next of kin) can still sue (and win huge awards/damages). This has happened countless times in the US. Go figure.
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Originally posted by rklenseth:
Yes, because 20th Century Fox owns the rights to anything related to Firefly/Serenity that goes to TV.
No you're missing the point, or I am.
They own the rights, but they said, officially I believe, that they would use that ownership in a particular way.
I mean if a software company sells you a program promising that, while the code belongs to them, it will be completely open to any company that asks, and then when somsone asks they don't let them have it aren't they guilty of false advertizing and thus in legal trouble?
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They own the rights, but they said, officially I believe, that they would use that ownership in a particular way.
Saying something "officially" is hardly a legal binding contract.
christhecynic, you keep using the term "false advertising", but that's got nothing to do with any of this - it's got to do with, well, advertising. Y'know TV commercials, magazine ads, etc.
If a toothpaste company ran TV commercials saying that using their product would cause fat people to lose weight, bald people to re-grow their hair and ugly guys to suddenly be able to date Playboy Bunnies, *that* would be "false advertising" (unless, of course, they could actually prove their toothpaste could do all that).
I don't know what Fox "officially" said about Firefly, but again, it isn't a legal document. If they said they'd be willing to let another network take over the show, it doesn't mean they're giving up rights to it to anyone that wants to produce their own episodes. It means they'd consider offers to buy or lease any rights Fox owns to the show.
Most likely they meant it. If someone came to them and offered enough money, I'm sure Fox would be willing to sell the legal rights to produce more episodes. Or sell outright whatever rights Fox has to Firefly. Even if they were lying and had no intentions of letting anyone else buy it, they're not breaking any laws by "officially" saying they're interested in selling and not meaning it.
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