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Article: Ye gods! Copyright clashes as old as Homer's 'Odyssey'.(Viewpoint)
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- Advertising Age
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- May 24, 2004
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Byline: Randall Rothenberg
The public's growing infatuation with heroic warfare, anthropomorphic gods, Greeks bearing gifts, overweening hubris and all other things associated with the new movie "Troy'' have made their way into a battle zone 8,000 miles away from the real Troy: a Manhattan courtroom.
There, attorneys for Homer, his alleged transcriber, several translators, and two women who claim to be his muses are arguing over copyright ownership for the Warner Bros. epic, for "The Iliad'' and the "Odyssey,'' and potentially for the literary concept of long, drawn-out battles among sexually ambiguous warriors.
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