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An Egyptian associate of Osama bin Laden plans to sue American director Michael Moore for allegedly using images of the terror chief in the Bush-bashing film “Fahrenheit 9/11” without permission.
Essam Deraz took almost four years getting footage of the head of al-Qaida at training camps in Afghanistan. He’s reportedly the only person to capture bin Laden on film in the late 1980s.
“Now I find that Mr. Moore’s film is being distributed in America and in other countries and I have received nothing,” he told the Times.
Deraz has filed a petition with the Egyptian public attorney, laying a claim to intellectual property rights. He’s looking for the film to be confiscated until a financial resolution is reached.
“Fahrenheit 9/11” collected $119 million in the U.S. and an addtional $103 million overseas, and will likely bring in millions more from sales of DVDs and other merchandise.
Moore’s attorney, Andrew Hurwitz, claims the film-production company acquired all the necessary rights for images used in the documentary.
“We have a license from al-Jazeera, the Gulf TV company, which makes clear that they own the rights to these clips,” Hurwitz told the paper. “They told us they owned the film.”
Deraz responded, “I have never sold my rights on these clips to anyone and certainly not to al-Jazeera. I will be taking this further. If al-Jazeera are saying they own them, where did they get from? Not from me.”
This is not the first time an allegation of purloined material has surfaced with Moore’s documentary.
Note from HSophia: Ray Bradbury has problems with Moore also but I couldn’t include his quote on this post due to forum restrictions…
worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42738
An Egyptian associate of Osama bin Laden plans to sue American director Michael Moore for allegedly using images of the terror chief in the Bush-bashing film “Fahrenheit 9/11” without permission.
Essam Deraz took almost four years getting footage of the head of al-Qaida at training camps in Afghanistan. He’s reportedly the only person to capture bin Laden on film in the late 1980s.
“Now I find that Mr. Moore’s film is being distributed in America and in other countries and I have received nothing,” he told the Times.
Deraz has filed a petition with the Egyptian public attorney, laying a claim to intellectual property rights. He’s looking for the film to be confiscated until a financial resolution is reached.
“Fahrenheit 9/11” collected $119 million in the U.S. and an addtional $103 million overseas, and will likely bring in millions more from sales of DVDs and other merchandise.
Moore’s attorney, Andrew Hurwitz, claims the film-production company acquired all the necessary rights for images used in the documentary.
“We have a license from al-Jazeera, the Gulf TV company, which makes clear that they own the rights to these clips,” Hurwitz told the paper. “They told us they owned the film.”
Deraz responded, “I have never sold my rights on these clips to anyone and certainly not to al-Jazeera. I will be taking this further. If al-Jazeera are saying they own them, where did they get from? Not from me.”
This is not the first time an allegation of purloined material has surfaced with Moore’s documentary.
Note from HSophia: Ray Bradbury has problems with Moore also but I couldn’t include his quote on this post due to forum restrictions…
worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42738
