A woman named Barbara Chase-Riboud tried to sue Stephen Spielberg for using her book as a movie without permission. She thinks that the movie Amistad was copied off of her book about a real-life mutiny aboard a slave ship off the coast of Cuba in 1839. She believed that DreamWorks’ script copied “themes, dialogue, characters, relationships, plots, scenes and fictional inventions” from her book Echo of Lions. There was no punishment because the court recognized that historical facts and basic character types are not protectable. So Chase-Riboud’s motion for summary judgment was denied. Friday, October 14, 2011
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A woman named Barbara Chase-Riboud tried to sue Stephen Spielberg for using her book as a movie without permission. She thinks that the movie Amistad was copied off of her book about a real-life mutiny aboard a slave ship off the coast of Cuba in 1839. She believed that DreamWorks’ script copied “themes, dialogue, characters, relationships, plots, scenes and fictional inventions” from her book Echo of Lions. There was no punishment because the court recognized that historical facts and basic character types are not protectable. So Chase-Riboud’s motion for summary judgment was denied. 
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