http://madisonian.net/2008/09/10/derivative-of-a-derivative/ a blog about law, tech, culture, and related things Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:59:42 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://madisonian.net/2008/09/10/derivative-of-a-derivative/comment-page-1/#comment-260111 Mike Madison Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:56:23 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=1499#comment-260111 I'm in the fortunate and probably uncommon position of having seen Rear Window (many times, but that's not extraordinary), seen Disturbia (only once, and that was enough), and read It Had to Be Murder (there is reason that Hitchcock's movie is a classic, and the story is mostly forgotten). In fact, I own a copy of the story and, within the bounds of copyright, would be happy to find a way to share it. I’m in the fortunate and probably uncommon position of having seen Rear Window (many times, but that’s not extraordinary), seen Disturbia (only once, and that was enough), and read It Had to Be Murder (there is reason that Hitchcock’s movie is a classic, and the story is mostly forgotten). In fact, I own a copy of the story and, within the bounds of copyright, would be happy to find a way to share it.

]]> http://madisonian.net/2008/09/10/derivative-of-a-derivative/comment-page-1/#comment-260110 Bruce Boyden Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:07:12 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=1499#comment-260110 The only one of these 3 works I've seen/read is "Rear Window" so I'm not able to comment directly on your comparison. But it seems like the overriding "similarity" here is in the premise -- and the premise is pretty far up the abstraction scale, I think. Sure, there's Daly v. Palmer -- woman tied down to a railroad track by evil villain found infringing (!) -- but that's from the 19th century. The only one of these 3 works I’ve seen/read is “Rear Window” so I’m not able to comment directly on your comparison. But it seems like the overriding “similarity” here is in the premise — and the premise is pretty far up the abstraction scale, I think. Sure, there’s Daly v. Palmer — woman tied down to a railroad track by evil villain found infringing (!) — but that’s from the 19th century.

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