My common sense says no, but when have laws ever made sense? I would think not only because you're assuming that the cast/crew didn't know it was copyrighted material.
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My common sense says no, but when have laws ever made sense? I would think not only because you're assuming that the cast/crew didn't know it was copyrighted material.
Copyright extends to anyone seeking to do anything public with the covered materials. Which is why the NFL/MLB/NHL/NBA always has that spiel about not recording and then showing in a group setting. You can record for your own use, but the minute you show it to your church social (or whatever), it technically breaks the law.
If I have understood that hastily announced disclaimer right.
And I think - again, THINK- that the moment you are profiting from someone else's work, regardless of how, you are in violation. So the actors being paid to be, say, Harry Potter on stage in a non-approved work would be open to lawsuit as well.
Though bear in mind I failed out of law school.
If I have understood that hastily announced disclaimer right.
And I think - again, THINK- that the moment you are profiting from someone else's work, regardless of how, you are in violation. So the actors being paid to be, say, Harry Potter on stage in a non-approved work would be open to lawsuit as well.
Though bear in mind I failed out of law school.
I keep going back to the thread (and the half dozen other threads with similar topics) and wondering if - just maybe - the geek culture has brought this all upon itself... My brain is still ticking over on the subject, but something useful ought to pop out when I'm trying not to think on it so much.
IANAL, but I would think the lawyers would target the producers first and foremost. There's a play from the 80s or 90s which ran into something very similar with... The Peanuts kids? The Archie gang? Something like those? I can't remember the details, but I know the characters were a lot older than their usual interpretations. The play was rewritten with different names, IIRC.
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This tickles me. This tickles me greatly.In the U.S., lawsuits can name anyone even if frivolous or false. Parties can move to be dismissed from the lawsuit, but they may sustain up-front costs in doing so.
If you're asking whether the actors and/or stage people can be found liable of infringement, I imagine you'd have to find some actual case law, but much would depend on how the suit was worded, etc.
Hmm. Not as old as I thought it was - Archie's Weird Fantasy was actually 2003. I think there are other plays which have had lawsuits filed for this as well, though - there's an image in my head of a woman hanging out washing on a line from a poster. From a play which got into hot water back in the 80s, but the details of the case might have been different.
*sigh* I wish I had kept all of the stuff like the Scapegoat magazine to hand for questions like these. So difficult to answer without trawling through dozens of irrelevant links.
*sigh* I wish I had kept all of the stuff like the Scapegoat magazine to hand for questions like these. So difficult to answer without trawling through dozens of irrelevant links.
Hooray for coming up with the dramatic ending of a long story you've barely written anything of yet, especially if that ending happening would require a drastic change in the world the story takes place in...
I swear, my imagination is just trying to fuck with me at this point.
Also on a tangent: Is it really worth it to sell all my individual volumes of Doctor Who DVDs just to get Series 1-4 as boxsets then the Specials and Series 5 + 6 as Blu Ray box sets? Cause right now I have like 29 DVDs and they're just taking up more space than they need to. Plus because of the individual volume nature of the releases (like 3 episodes to a DVD), they lack many (often all) of the special features, and I'm a whore for special features.
I swear, my imagination is just trying to fuck with me at this point.
Also on a tangent: Is it really worth it to sell all my individual volumes of Doctor Who DVDs just to get Series 1-4 as boxsets then the Specials and Series 5 + 6 as Blu Ray box sets? Cause right now I have like 29 DVDs and they're just taking up more space than they need to. Plus because of the individual volume nature of the releases (like 3 episodes to a DVD), they lack many (often all) of the special features, and I'm a whore for special features.
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How is everyone else doing today though?
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This. So much. I really have to get my sleep back on track soon.
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This. So much. I really have to get my sleep back on track soon.
I'm right there with you. Except my pot of coffee is already gone.
I really wish I was able to drink coffee right about now. It's only half past 7 but I'm starting to feel annoyingly sleepy.
I hate my brain.
I now have an entire series/trilogy doing the fucking Charleston on my brain singing "write me, write me, write me" while I only have the VERY basic premise, the opening chapter or two of the first book, and some awesome moments from towards the end of the last book in my head.
Seriously, my brain is a dick!
I now have an entire series/trilogy doing the fucking Charleston on my brain singing "write me, write me, write me" while I only have the VERY basic premise, the opening chapter or two of the first book, and some awesome moments from towards the end of the last book in my head.
Seriously, my brain is a dick!
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Yeah, I've had house painters here off and on for most of a week now, making my house all pretty while they trample the gardens I've spent a decade making beautiful into itty bitty smithereens. )-:
I believe they'll be done today. And tomorrow at this time, I will (fingers crossed) own a new house and have begun the 2012 Great Schlepp of Stuff.
Not that I'm not feeling your pain, 'cause, well, been there. But I just adore your imagery. the Charleston? Really?
It was the funniest dance I know.Not that I'm not feeling your pain, 'cause, well, been there. But I just adore your imagery. the Charleston? Really?
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