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| Swholli:
--- Quote from: Rughugger on July 13, 2009, 11:42:23 PM ---A lot of people don't. Seth Green doesn't in his Robot chicken ones and I don't see George Lucas getting all upset. Seth green is making millions off of it. Morals are for suckers. --- End quote --- I'm going to say that somewhere behind the scenes Robot Chicken's lawyers and Lucas Arts' Lawyers get together and talk about something. Again it's not that easy. Sure we could contact Lucas' legal team directly, but something tells me they won't really reply to a letter from two teenage boys making a movie with a video game. I'm going to stick with the basic rules of copying. I'm not making any money, it's shareware, you (Lucas) lose nothing. In fact, he gains popularity for Star Wars. |
| TapeDeck:
--- Quote from: Swholli on July 13, 2009, 10:32:06 PM ---First of all, that's not the same thing at all. You pay to use their camera's. You buy their film. Their logo goes at the end of your movie so they get free advertisement. We're ripping off a movie, and not changing names. Only because of comical effect, but still, if we even did anything remotely close to a transaction of legal tender using Lucas' property, I would not feel good about it what so ever. Even if it were legal, it feels wrong to steal ideas. I guess as a creator myself, I understand the need for copyrights. No thank you, but it was nice of you to try and help. --- End quote --- Its legal because its a parody. Look at Weird Al. Even though he asks before he does a song, he technically doesn't have to. (Fair Use) http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html |
| WRB852:
We can't get in trouble unless we're making money off of it. |
| Swholli:
--- Quote from: TapeDeck on July 14, 2009, 01:48:33 AM ---Its legal because its a parody. Look at Weird Al. Even though he asks before he does a song, he technically doesn't have to. (Fair Use) http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html --- End quote --- Weird Al is different. Weird Al writes his own lyrics to other people's songs. We are literally taking the names LUKE SKYWALKER and DARTH VADER and HAN SOLO and using them in our own production. Maybe Lucas does have a copy right on them, maybe he doesn't. I don't want to take the chance of going to court with 20'th Century Fox's lawyers. Sure we could change the names like we did everything else, but that just wouldn't be as fun. To me it wouldn't be the kind of parody I was going for. Though I think naming Han: Ham Salad would just make me giggle. |
| TapeDeck:
--- Quote from: Swholli on July 14, 2009, 02:11:40 AM ---Weird Al is different. Weird Al writes his own lyrics to other people's songs. Yeah but he uses the exact backing music they wrote We are literally taking the names LUKE SKYWALKER and DARTH VADER and HAN SOLO and using them in our own production. Maybe Lucas doesn't have a copy right on them, maybe he doesn't. I don't want to take the chance of going to court with 20'th Century Fox's lawyers. Sure we could change the names like we did everything else, but that just wouldn't be as fun. To me it wouldn't be the kind of parody I was going for. Though I think naming Han: Ham Salad would just make me giggle. --- End quote --- --- Quote from: WRB852 on July 14, 2009, 01:49:59 AM ---We can't get in trouble unless we're making money off of it. --- End quote --- |
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