Comments on: Flash Of Tedious http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/06/flash-of-tedious/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Tue, 29 May 2012 02:19:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tracer Hand http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/06/flash-of-tedious/#comment-624999 Tracer Hand Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:40:33 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=14484#comment-624999 We're all just trying to get out of Winesburg, Ohio. We’re all just trying to get out of Winesburg, Ohio.

]]> By: Pete http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/06/flash-of-tedious/#comment-624812 Pete Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:10:56 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=14484#comment-624812 And then lend it to me! And then lend it to me!

]]> By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/06/flash-of-tedious/#comment-624766 pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:26:35 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=14484#comment-624766 I'll have to dig it out and reread it I’ll have to dig it out and reread it

]]> By: Pete Baran http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/06/flash-of-tedious/#comment-624755 Pete Baran Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:57:29 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=14484#comment-624755 I think you might be right Martin, its a film which just doesn't make sense as a straight movie. Its too obvious, its out of time, its in the wrong format, with the wrong (right) actors. And Mark, yes, there is a very interesting set of IP issues in this film, which lumbers on to this day, how much latter day invention hinges on things that the inventor may not be able to invent from scratch. I think you might be right Martin, its a film which just doesn’t make sense as a straight movie. Its too obvious, its out of time, its in the wrong format, with the wrong (right) actors. And Mark, yes, there is a very interesting set of IP issues in this film, which lumbers on to this day, how much latter day invention hinges on things that the inventor may not be able to invent from scratch.

]]> By: Martin http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/06/flash-of-tedious/#comment-624741 Martin Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:03:23 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=14484#comment-624741 I've decided the only rational way to deal with Flash of Genius is to treat it as the deepest, stealthiest, straightest parody movie ever made. It's a parody of the man-vs-corporation, overcomes-odds genre but just happens to have gone to unusual lengths to pull the wool over people's eyes. It's the only way the movie makes any sense. I’ve decided the only rational way to deal with Flash of Genius is to treat it as the deepest, stealthiest, straightest parody movie ever made. It’s a parody of the man-vs-corporation, overcomes-odds genre but just happens to have gone to unusual lengths to pull the wool over people’s eyes. It’s the only way the movie makes any sense.

]]> By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/06/flash-of-tedious/#comment-624721 pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:02:40 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=14484#comment-624721 Everyone has a blog post in them and here's mine: I read a brilliant brilliant article on this story in the New Yorker about 20 years ago -- it pulled in the entire evolution of the idea of intellectual property as it applied to invention, from Jefferson to Edison to the guys who "came up with" Bob's idea second... (the judgment hinged on whether his idea wasa natural development of the known and estabiushed, or an actual eureka-moment invention) Everyone has a blog post in them and here’s mine:

I read a brilliant brilliant article on this story in the New Yorker about 20 years ago — it pulled in the entire evolution of the idea of intellectual property as it applied to invention, from Jefferson to Edison to the guys who “came up with” Bob’s idea second… (the judgment hinged on whether his idea wasa natural development of the known and estabiushed, or an actual eureka-moment invention)

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