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To Red Scare and SPADA

Writer: Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Jan 21
1 min read

Whether you tried to co-author is irrelevant. There was no contract. There was no binding verbal agreement.

If you weren't invited to participate via email addresses and WriterDuet profiles, it's called plagiarism. Hacking into my script doesn't entitle you to credit. There's 100 pages of drafting documents as well. People began to screw with me in the last 25 or 30 pages. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GLSG0-QEmgyIiG1S-a1rOzcgcTW9N0ov/view?usp=sharing -


You plagiarised my script to write your unauthorised version.

You didn't invent the core characters. You didn't invent the core script. You definitely didn't write the songs. They're registered with APRA.

Weeded Out 1 was so far in advance of you that there's an almost completed draft from August 2020 that is pure and simply mine. 30+ pages of a 48-page script. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ai-qkRODuIr7C8iZGtrDUxBeWQ2erM3g/view?usp=sharing


That means all subsequent episodes were built from my material.

You have no valid case, Mr. Barr. You've lost and that's the truth. - Your claims that I'm disreputable were pre-Dakumentary. Now I'm huge and you're jealous/insecure. You feel big when the studios empower you, but now I've got a billionaire or three that want to see me given an equal opportunity to make a career, despite your chicanery. - The script was based on my life, my friends and NZ folk music/rock hits. Vernacular music, to use a fancy term. Not musical theatre. Riddell Productions became popular based on applying that idiom. That's why our songs are valuable.

 
 
 

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