This Eric Monte (true creator of Good Times, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons) vs Norman Lear came up in my suggestions. I was familiar with surface of it but hearing him in his own words gave some flashbacks 
Anyone ever had a major idea/work stolen by the powers that be?
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Feed the children
Remember that Ray shyt that Jamie Foxx played?
That was my shyt
I never got paid, they got rich off a stolen script
In ninety eight I seen Charles on the Cali strip
Showed him the copyrights, his life in the real flick
In Braille, he read it in no time
Hit me with his math, said I'll give you some more lines
Real talk, stand up dude
Said ‘how you like Jamie Foxx to replay you?’ He said ‘yea that's cool
But under one circumstance,
you think he can bow my walk, flip my talk and my hands?’
I said ‘sure why not, he can imitate anything trust me this young boy hot’
Shook his hand then I bounced in the limo
Grabbed my cell, bit my cigar and then rolled down the window
That was my shyt
I never got paid, they got rich off a stolen script
In ninety eight I seen Charles on the Cali strip
Showed him the copyrights, his life in the real flick
In Braille, he read it in no time
Hit me with his math, said I'll give you some more lines
Real talk, stand up dude
Said ‘how you like Jamie Foxx to replay you?’ He said ‘yea that's cool
But under one circumstance,
you think he can bow my walk, flip my talk and my hands?’
I said ‘sure why not, he can imitate anything trust me this young boy hot’
Shook his hand then I bounced in the limo
Grabbed my cell, bit my cigar and then rolled down the window
Doobie Doo
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I saw his story on Facebook a few days ago. Of course Norman Lear stole his ideas, a Jewish guy from Conneticut knew nothing about black families.
Yes. To this day I swear Sha Money XL stole a song off my MySpace page. Back when he used to follow EVERYBODY.
Since doing the Ring Gang Radio podcasts we have had some intellectual property stolen off us:
some examples
myself - i had an article I wrote bitten right down to a specific topic/concept for a past fight from the Athletic
my breh @LauderdaleBoss had a whole picture he drew plagiarized by Showtime..that was foul as fukk
a couple of summers ago we did a podcast topic talking about ESPN having a big fight archive but only re-airing certain fights, less than a week later a writer on boxingscene.com took all the major points from what we talked about and made a whole article...coincidence i think not
no ideas original
some examples
myself - i had an article I wrote bitten right down to a specific topic/concept for a past fight from the Athletic
my breh @LauderdaleBoss had a whole picture he drew plagiarized by Showtime..that was foul as fukk
a couple of summers ago we did a podcast topic talking about ESPN having a big fight archive but only re-airing certain fights, less than a week later a writer on boxingscene.com took all the major points from what we talked about and made a whole article...coincidence i think not
no ideas original
I came up with something while at my old job... They cliqued up with major companies to make the complete version I was working towards, then told me I "don't care" about the work cause of all the attention I was getting from it and laid me off.
A friend had his art work stolen by Adobe
get these nets
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People steal ideas everyday, B.
If you don't have the resources to bring the concept to life, hold the idea close to the vest.
If you don't have the resources to bring the concept to life, hold the idea close to the vest.
shyt's annoying but motivating i guess