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2026-09-23

The Super Bowl ad Apple tried to sell back

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Steve Hayden wrote the line for Chiat/Day; Ridley Scott shot it123. George Orwell's estate called it copyright infringement, and Apple never paid to air it again4.

References

  1. 1
    Folklore.org — "1984", Andy Hertzfeld

    folklore.org

  2. 2
    Lemelson Center, Smithsonian — "Remembering Apple's '1984' Super Bowl Ad"

    invention.si.edu

  3. 3
    Mental Floss — "The True Story of Apple's '1984' Ad's First Broadcast, Before the Super Bowl"

    mentalfloss.com

  4. 4
    William R. Coulson, "'Big Brother' is Watching Apple", Dartmouth Law Journal 7(1), Winter 2009

    web.archive.org

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