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... The business of selling unoriginal ideas - known in the TV world as "formats" - boomed with the rise of reality TV, because, unlike drama, these shows can be localised with relative ease. ...
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Of equal importance to the business of buying formats, is the business of protecting them. As a result of extensive cross-breeding - without which, arguably, formats would not evolve - genealogical lines have diluted, leaving the legal ground on which the intellectual property sits somewhat unstable. ... " He does, however, concede that "a lot of these ideas considered formats are ideas which originated elsewhere and end up claimed as a format".
Consider this: Endemols Blind Faith echoes Foxs Temptation Island, Endemols Star Academy is Screentimes Popstars with a film-industry twist, Sevens football club reality series The Club bears a striking resemblance to Endemols The Peoples Club and Endemols Forgive Me (developed in Australia as Forgive Me, Im Sorry) sounds awfully like the US syndicated series Forgive & Forget. ... Boot Camp, a US reality series, was so similar to Survivor that CBS and producer Mark Burnett filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against broadcaster Fox and producer LMNO last year.
Approximate Word count = 819
Approximate Pages = 3.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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