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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Look, I don't mean to drag the conversation down, but there already exist porn 'parodies' that use copyrighted names.
Also, there's Wally Wood's Disneyland Memorial Orgy poster.
So it could likely be done now if there were interest. And honestly, what harm would occur? What confusion would there be? It's ludicrous.
Using that logic, why does society need stories about Snow White not created by The Brothers Grimm, stories about Pinocchio not created by Carlo Collodi or stories about The Little Mermaid not created by Hans Christian Andersen?
Goethe should have held on to The Sorcerer's Apprentice, so no music by Paul Dukas, no Fantasia by Disney, no revival of Mickey's popularity. |
If not for public domain, very little of our modern society would exist. There would be little music, literature or movies because very few works isn't based on something else.
A fairly substantial piece of Star Wars was lifted from The Hidden Fortress. The Magnificent Seven was a straight lift from the Seven Samurai. The spagetti western Fistful of Dollars was inspired by Yojimbo and actually lost that copyright infringement case. Changing the names and making it a western rather than a samurai movie didn't help them.