—That’s why they’re experts Oscar look, problem’s spelled out right here. The plaintiffs, that’s you, plaintiffs called no witnesses to rebut this testimony, and if their failure to do so was because of the commanding position of the defendants in the industry, they did not prove it. We must therefore assume that the testimony represents the best opinion of the calling but look, you’ve still got an advantage under the Copyright Act, gives the court the power to award you damages in lieu of actual damages and profits as they put it. Give you the job of showing actual money damages would be hopeless, ask you to sort out who contributed what you’d be completely at sea and never recover a dime that’s why the burden falls on the infringer and that’s what this is all about, expert witnesses and all the rest of it. Stars, producers, director, supporting players, extras, scenery and locations, set designers, cinematographers, special effects, composer, costumers, it’s a costume drama isn’t it? makeup, hairdressers, point is there’s a pretty fair market value established for all these services and the story is just one more element where development may run through ten writers and twenty versions of the script and the original concept, the story idea is left in the dust. One of their experts here calls it mundane, another one says it’s frail so they try to put a price on it, on your contribution, fair market value for the . . .

—Like the hairdresser.

—Like the hairdresser, look. They see a thousand ideas a day, even good ideas don’t always make good movies, they buy one and stake millions on it hoping for some big success and that’s up to the development and execution of the final product, the rest is goods and services.

—Like the hairdresser.