In a unanimous opinion, a three-judge panel denied an appeal from Warner Bros. Television, which has argued that the two shows are unrelated.
“There are clear and numerous similarities between ‘The Pitt’ and ‘ER,” the court ruled, citing the emergency room setting, the fast pace, the medical jargon, the graphic depictions of injuries, and a young, incompetent doctor fresh from medical school. “We find the details here suffice for a prima facie case.”
The criteria they gave are vague aspects of all emergency rooms, as any experienced medical doctor can attest.
Here’s the description for the top 10 litRPG novels available right now:
If this description is copyrighted, the genre dies.
You say that like that would be a bad thing…
That genre is already dead in some respects, because its main publishers (Royal Guard, Atheon, Podium) all use AI for editing and have no policy against AI use by authors — and worst of all, the readers are semiliterate gamers who think it’s impossible to be sure if AI was used, meaning that subreddits and other forums dedicated to promoting these works have explicit rules against mentioning AI.
I’m not kidding.
What youre missing is the context of how the show was created. They reached out to Crichton’s estate to make a reboot, balked at the price, then immediately made The Pitt.
With that context and the similarities it seems the judges thought there is enough evidence they were trying to make an ER fascimile that a court case is worth it. In the court case they may find the shows aren’t similar enough, but given the events leading up to the show, it seems like they may have pulled a lot from ER.
And? Did Crichton write the Pitt? No, because he’s dead. Did they use his characters? No, because his greedy estate (whose very existence makes no sense) wanted too much money.
These legal shenanigans are all part of the commodification of art by capitalist parasites, which is why, for instance, Tolkien’s work still hasn’t entered the public domain, despite being almost a century old.
Well, a panel of 3 judges decided that Chrichton’s widow had enough of an argument that The Pitt is a derivative work of ER. We’ll see how the trial goes.
The same farcical judicial system that banned abortion and gave the president immunity from crimes. I don’t even have to assume they were bribed, just dumb af.
The Supreme Court is a little different than these judges here presiding over a copywrite case lol
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Ah yes and everyone at Warner Bros is intelligent and honest and would never, ever try to make money while bending the rules.
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I’m just bantering about a copywrite lawsuit about television shows. It’s not that big a deal lol
You’re coming at this really hard like Warner Bros are completely in the right and everyone else is super stupid. Which may be in this case, but I’m never one to give Warner Bros the benefit of the doubt.
Again, this isn’t about WB. It’s about art and copyright.
We are capable of evaluating the court’s arguments, and they do seem to make a very poor case. The commonalitres listed by the court themselves are embarrasingly and obviously staples of hospital drama.
We’ll see what the court ultimately decides, but a loss is very likely and a win would be disastrous for almost every form of narrative art. The implications of owning an entire genre is copyright troll Nirvana. We’re right to have feelings.