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Star Ballz Trumps Lucas

Posted by timothy on from the shadow-knows dept.

baby_head_rush writes: "The company that created pr0n cartoon Star Ballz won in court. George Lucas and company lost their first bid to stop its sale. A judge with some common sense. There is 'little likelihood of confusion' between Star Wars and Star Ballz." Not for young eyes.

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  1. Re:Parody & IP by Rogerborg · · Score: 3, Interesting
    • people are allowed to use intellectual property for parody purposes, which is clearly what Star Ballz is doing

    People are allowed to use IP for "fair use", of which parody is one example, the one the creators are claiming here. But parody is defined as "for comic effect or ridicule".

    Some hentai can be viewed as funny, but you can say the same for some musicals. This looks like either hentai in a Star Wars style, or (as Lucasarts claimed) Star Wars in a hentai style. I don't think comedy is a primary goal in either case.

    Ridicule implies commentary or criticism, as in "Spaceballs" or "Troopers". Perhaps there's some of that here, but from the shots it looks very much like a character-for-character, scene-for-scene remake, only with large animated sexual organs.

    We'd need to watch it to be sure, but I don't see it as being that clear cut, not at all.

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  2. Has anyone actually watched this crap? by Mofo196 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I downloaded the sample clip and hoo-boy is that terrible. I can appreciate a good parody even ones that rely on cock and ball humor, but this is god-awful. I don't even know why Lucas felt there was anything to worry about. It's not like anyone is actually going to buy this.