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Mark Burnett Accused of Pirating Reality Show

Posted May 29th 2009 7:43PM by TMZ Staff

The following story really isn't about the fact that some dude is suing reality king Mark Burnett over his short lived show "Pirate Master" -- the REAL story is that someone actually wants the credit for creating that piece of crap.



Some guy named James Papa says the show idea was all his -- and that after he "created" it back in 2003 and registered it with the US Copyright Office, that damn scallywag Burnett plundered all of his brilliant ideas -- like having a reality show on a pirate ship and making eliminated contestants "walk the plank." Burnett's show aired on CBS in 2007.

In the suit, filed today in L.A. County Superior Court, Papa is demanding no less than $2,000,000 for his trouble ... unless it goes into arrrrrrrrrrrbitration.

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1. FIRST!!! HAHAH

Posted at 8:03PM on May 29th 2009 by t

2. I'm first hahahahaha Oh damm, where did you come from?!!

Posted at 8:06PM on May 29th 2009 by Zippy T. Pinhead

3. Someone trying to make a dime,show sucked,nobody even knows who won,o yea a pirate

Posted at 9:13PM on May 29th 2009 by stupid show

4. What was unique about this show was that a contestant's fiance and then later the contestant committed suicide. It was the female lawyer for worked for a distant attorney's office. They both had apparantly been depressed and the guy did it first because she had lost. The girl did it next because she felt cheated in the show and as a result lost, which caused her fiance's death.

Saddness for the families, and all that for a bad tv show. That's the real crime.

Posted at 9:59PM on May 29th 2009 by PizzaNite

5. Just about the most pathetic show ever televised. Good luck tard. Survivor mixed with Big Brother and (believe it or not) way trashier contestants.

Watched a few episodes.....was it cancelled before the finish? Have no idea what happened to that hot mess.

Posted at 12:27AM on May 30th 2009 by jz

6. wtf? i never even heard of this damn show.

Posted at 12:06AM on Jun 1st 2009 by stormcloud

7. Pinhead gat REAL BIG ha ha ha..thatz It boob`ka U cann gat it N u nows.

Posted at 2:20AM on May 30th 2009 by BQ4U2C@U moma xxddd

8. "PIRATE MASTER" ,lol. I didn't know he did gay porn, lol.

Posted at 3:24AM on May 30th 2009 by LOL!

9. arrrrrr!

Posted at 3:29AM on May 30th 2009 by bex

10. Good for him. Burnett could spare a coupla million.

Posted at 8:03AM on May 30th 2009 by Lover

11. Never Heard of the show...

Posted at 8:20AM on May 30th 2009 by CiaoAmica

12. I dunno, I liked the show...

Not a big leap to think about all of the reality shows and that pirates were big and popular thanks to Johnny Depp and to come up with that show idea.

Posted at 9:39AM on May 30th 2009 by I dunno

13. NEED THE EYE PATCH

Posted at 9:39AM on May 30th 2009 by clown

14. WOW! TALK ABOUT BONES

Posted at 9:07PM on May 30th 2009 by clown

15. Mark Burnett has stolen concepts for his other successful shows as well, and has settled at least one of those cases. Why does TMZ insist on trashing the poor writer?

Posted at 12:10PM on May 30th 2009 by LizzyTish

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