Alex Proyas, who directed the 2004 Will Smith film, compared his film to Tesla's new vehicles.

The director of 2004 sci-fi film I, Robot has accused billionaire Elon Musk of copying his designs for humanoid machines and self-driving vehicles.

  • lemmyingly@lemm.eeEnglish
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    30 days ago

    It’s because he called the event ‘We, Robot’. So it’s fairly obvious that he wants to draw parallels between Tesla’s humanoids and the robots within the movie.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      29 days ago

      That’s a problem though because the movie isn’t in a piece of original work. It’s based on the book by the same title by Isaac Asimov. I assume it’s out of copy right now not really sure.

      Anyway the point is neither the movie nor anything Elon Musk may or may not have done is the original work and since the original work has been replicated many times it’s fairly obvious no one owns the copyright. Much like how no one owns the copyright to the tripods in war of the worlds anymore which is why there’s been so many adaptations over the years.