Star Technology and UIs on Movies: Entertaining a Diverse Audience
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 10th Sep 2003 03:36 UTC
Multimedia, AV With the computer market exploding into success the last 20 years more and more movies are featuring people using computers. Being a computer geek myself, I expect a level of "technological reality" for the movies that are not in the realm of "sci-fi", but directors usually are feeding their movies with superficial scenes about computers just for the happy clapping from the computer-illiterate audience.
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About Office Space and other mix-n-match movie ui's
by Omar on Wed 10th Sep 2003 11:33 UTC

Might the use of UI elements from different OSes be important to avoid copyright/trademark violations? I don't know very much about the law but it seems that if a fictional UI used in a movie were too similar to a real life one, then there could be legal hassles.