{"id":16027,"date":"2016-08-05T04:25:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T08:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16027"},"modified":"2016-07-31T17:48:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T21:48:44","slug":"court-rules-lockout-copies-too-much-from-escape-from-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16027","title":{"rendered":"Court Rules &#8220;Lockout&#8221; Copies Too Much from &#8220;Escape from New York&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z080516efny_vs_lockout.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Escape from New York<\/strong><\/em> and<em><strong> Lockout<\/strong><\/em> are two of my favorite movies. \u00a0That should be no surprise since a Paris appeal court ruled that they&#8217;re basically the same story.<b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>&#8230;Luc Besson <\/b>must pay more than $500,000 (450,000 euros) in damages to<b> John Carpenter <\/b>and rights holder<b> StudioCanal <\/b>for plagiarizing<b> Carpenter\u2019s <\/b>1981 classic<b> <em>Escape From New York<\/em> <\/b>when he made the 2012 film<b> <em>Lockout<\/em>.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although there are similarities are there enough to justify the penalty? \u00a0Not sure I agree, but since <strong>Luc Besson&#8217;s<\/strong> people aren&#8217;t complaining, who am I to?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2016\/07\/luc-besson-john-carpenter-appeal-denied-escape-from-new-york-plagiarism-lawsuit-1201795191\/\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escape from New York and Lockout are two of my favorite movies. \u00a0That should be no surprise since a Paris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16030,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16027\/revisions\/16030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}