Repeating myself for the dullards
- Amanda Riddell
- May 27, 2024
- 2 min read
There is no legally valid basis on which I can be forced to return to Victoria University.
I enrolled at Te Wānanga O Aotearoa and that was a valid decision.
There is no legally valid basis on which I can be forced to produce a certain script.
There's this thing called IP law. That gives me the right to say that I wrote this thing and that people who wish to adapt it need to pay me licencing fees in order to produce a film.
There is no legally valid basis on which I can be threatened with criminal charges to compel me to produce, act, direct, sing, write, or in any way assist VUW or Wellington artists with saving their jobs. That is called coercion, and that is illegal. They're welcome to invent their own characters, their own situations, their own songs and their own story. If my script proved that there's a demand for content about Gay Wellington, then it is absolutely within the rights of those people who called me a pervert in the newspaper to write their own drama about their lives, instead of coasting off my accomplishments. -
There is simply no legally valid basis on which to pursue these claims. I will win in court and that is the only acceptable outcome. I get to repeatedly, consistently and continuously reject VUW's offers.
I have published multiple cease and desist letters, and VUW cannot claim that they haven't read those, given that they're obviously obsessed with me.
No 'tina ha āe' only 'Tina ha kao because Amanda has rejected the offer' Next time, pay the licencing fee instead of gaslighting me. ✊🏻 - Stop pretending as if this is supportive. Stealing IP isn't being supportive. I showed you how much I spent on my Dakumentary, and I set a fair, legitimate and reasonable price for my Tina screenplay. You're only offering to pay me in exposure, and that is simply not acceptable now that I'm 30. $50,000 was simply the price, and not one of these uber-producers was willing to actually front up, pay the licencing fee and accept that I wasn't going to act in it. Now that I'm actively adapting my screenplay into prose, that is actually the end of this particular wave of negotiations. I was well within my rights under the Copyright Act 1994 to produce an adaptation (or derivative work, as it's called technically). That adaptation is still in-progress; writing shit like this is wasting valuable time that I could be spending on finishing that story. I've said no, I've explicated my legal rights and that is the best that I can do. I don't have a team of bloody lawyers combing through my every post, and I've been forced to resort to using AI as a tool to assert my legal rights. Now, stuff off, be fair and accept that I get to say no to any and all offers regarding my screenplay because I am actively adapting that into another medium and that simply ends the discussion.