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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui[The Time Traveller])
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: Who ya gonna call... LAWBUSTERS (Do dah Do dah)
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Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 15:08:43 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 15 15:08:43 1984
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Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui[The Time Traveller])
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Summary: 

>Harvey Comics, owners of Casper the Friendly Ghost & company, is suing
>Columbia Pictures for $50 million, charging that the logo for the hit movie
>GHOSTBUSTERS was actually a character appearing in "The Ghostly Trio", a
>group of characters in the Casper comic book.  Besides the monetary
>compensation, they want all prints of the movie burned, and for Columbia to
>stop using the famous logo.

I've heard that Disney is also, uh, upset over Ghostbusters. It seems there
was a Disney cartoon many years ago that started MIckey, Goofy, and Donald
as a trio of incompetent bumblers out to de-ghost a house. That predates
the Casper stuff by about 15 years, so if they DO win, I hope disney takes
it all away from them (the cartoon, BTW, is at least as good as
Ghostbusters).

Anyone who takes any of thise seriously should read David Gerrold's
comments on 'Trouble Fro Tribbles', Heinlein, and original ideas.

[any similarity between Ghostbusters and any other story involving three
people running around making fools of themselves and getting slimed while
getting rid of ghosts is completely accidently. of course.]

chuq

-- 
From behind the bar at Callahan's:		Chuq Von Rospach
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their
bones. So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was
ambitious... And Brutus is an honorable man