Okay, this is weird...
Apr. 16th, 2008 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillRemember that movie, Expelled? Started as "Crossroads" claiming to be a documentary about the intersection of religion and science, turned out to be an anti-evolution movie equating biologists and Nazis, yeah you remember the basics.
Well 1) it turns out the makers of Expelled copied the best part, a computer animation of various proteins working in a cell, from a video called "The Inner Life Of The Cell" made for Harvard by a small company called XVIVO (The video is great, by the way; I can see why they wanted to use it. I'm less clear on why they wanted to plagarize it. ) XVIVO has naturally taken action to protect their copyright.
2) Apparently the makers of Expelled stole other parts of the movie from PBS.
3) And now it turns out that the makers of Expelled are suing XVIVO. I'm a little opaque on for what. As near as I can figure out, it's for sullying Expelled's good name by complaining that it plagarizes their work.
I think someone over at PBS should look into this. If the makers of Expelled really did steal from PBS, PBS should sue the snot out of them.
Well 1) it turns out the makers of Expelled copied the best part, a computer animation of various proteins working in a cell, from a video called "The Inner Life Of The Cell" made for Harvard by a small company called XVIVO (The video is great, by the way; I can see why they wanted to use it. I'm less clear on why they wanted to plagarize it. ) XVIVO has naturally taken action to protect their copyright.
2) Apparently the makers of Expelled stole other parts of the movie from PBS.
3) And now it turns out that the makers of Expelled are suing XVIVO. I'm a little opaque on for what. As near as I can figure out, it's for sullying Expelled's good name by complaining that it plagarizes their work.
I think someone over at PBS should look into this. If the makers of Expelled really did steal from PBS, PBS should sue the snot out of them.
