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May 27, 1934 |
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Writer |
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Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.
Terminator controversy
Ellison claimed that James Cameron's film The Terminator drew from material from Ellison's Outer Limits episodes "Soldier"[1] and "Demon with a Glass Hand"[2]. Hemdale, the production company and the distributor Orion Pictures, settled out of court for an undisclosed sum, "acknowledging" the work of Ellison at the end of the film.[3] Cameron has labeled Ellison's claim a "nuisance suit" and referred to Ellison as a "parasite who can kiss my ass."[4]
On April 24, 2000 Ellison sued Stephen Robertson for posting four stories to the newsgroup "alt.binaries.e-book" without authorization. The other defendants were AOL and RemarQ, internet service providers whose only involvement was running servers hosting the newsgroup. Ellison claimed that they had failed to stop the alleged copyright infringement in accordance with the "Notice and Takedown Procedure" outlined in the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Robertson and RemarQ first settled with Ellison, and then AOL likewise settled with Ellison in June 2004, under conditions that were not made public. Since those settlements Ellison has initiated legal action and/or takedown notices against more than 240 people who have distributed his writings on the Internet, saying, "If you put your hand in my pocket, you’ll drag back six inches of bloody stump".[5]
References
- ↑ SCIFI.COM | The Outer Limits
- ↑ SCIFI.COM | The Outer Limits
- ↑ Marx, Andy (July 7, 1991). "IT'S MINE All Very Well and Good, but Don't Hassle the T-1000". Los Angeles Times. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61349412.html?dids=61349412:61349412&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+07%2C+1991&author=Andy+Marx&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=IT%27S+MINE+All+Very+Well+and+Good%2C+but+Don%27t+Hassle+the+T-1000&pqatl=google. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
- ↑ The Futurist: The Life and Times of James Cameron (Kindle location 885)
- ↑ Rich, Motoko (May 12, 2009). "Print Books Are Target of Pirates on the Web". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/technology/internet/12digital.html?src=sch. Retrieved 2009-05-10.