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Old December 11th, 2006, 10:42 PM
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Doesn't him selling those t-shirts fall under legal uses of a published work, in that you can make a parody?
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Default Re: [OT] More George Lucas bashing.

Yep. Fanfiction, fanart, fan-made anything without a licensing deal is all a violation of copyright and, if the author of the copyrighted material cannot argue before a judge that they did not know it existed, they can loose their copyright. They have to stomp on anyone they can be proven to know about...Which, for a company as big as GL's, means everyone.

Or, as it was put better than I could:
http://weberfaq.thefifthimperium.com/

Go to number 1.4, or search for 'fanfiction'. It'll be the first one.
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Default Re: [OT] More George Lucas bashing.

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Doesn't him selling those t-shirts fall under legal uses of a published work, in that you can make a parody?
The author has mentioned this, and believes he'd have a very strong case under parody & fair use - unfortunately he believes that even if his case were 100% rock solid he'd lose in court anyway because he doesn't have the resources to go up against GL's horde of partnership collective drones.
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Doesn't him selling those t-shirts fall under legal uses of a published work, in that you can make a parody?
The author has mentioned this, and believes he'd have a very strong case under parody & fair use - unfortunately he believes that even if his case were 100% rock solid he'd lose in court anyway because he doesn't have the resources to go up against GL's horde of partnership collective drones.
Which is where you hire a very specific mercenary company to come with you into court.
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While I have never made any money off of any of my ships sets, I wonder if George will have his lap dog devil inspired lawyers send me a letter about the two star wars ship sets I made? I wonder if they would try to lay claim to my one of a kind designs based off the fact that they had been inspired by star wars?
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If I'm not mistaken , no one wanted to buy in or market the original Star Wars and Lucas believing in his product went alone on this and basicly mortgaged his future - if I'm wrong on this correct me - but I feel he has the right to continue to own all liciencing rights to his creation
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In general I agree that walkers are usually a poor choice for a fighting vehicle. However I think the AT-AT's can sort of technobabble their way out of being completely unbelievable by saying they have shield generators which due to their large hull can be strong enough to negate most or all expected incoming firepower, but which would be too heavy to cheaply put in a hovering vehicle.
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Ya, walkers even get wiped out by 18-inch stubby-limbed muppets using stone-age wood/rock/vine technology.

Emperor Palpatine said something about them being crewed by "An entire legion of my best troops..." too...
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