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Lucasfilms Nixes Star Wars Live Screening
An anonymous reader writes "The Seattle PI has an article about Lucasfilms sending a cease and desist letter to a local Seattle-based theater company. The company had been planning to do a live parody of Star Wars in which they would turn off the sound and redub it live. This brings up the question are parodies fair use? And if so, should copyright holders be allowed to order people not to parody their work?"
Of course Lucas wants it stopped, otherwise how would he be able to release "Star Wars: The Super-Extra-Special-Parody Edition"?
Nothing funnier than a room full of geeks dressed as Boba Fett shouting "LOOK SIR, DROIDS!" simultaneously.
If They don't want people making a parody out of thier films, how about a cease and desist letter to a certain George Lucas?
You go ahead and assume that, I'll play the lottery - I think I have better odds on that.
[Set Cain on fire and steal his lute.]
> I clicked the little checkbox that is supposed to prevent me from seeing all this Star Wars trivia. Why am I still seeing these stories?
This is not the trivia you are looking for.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
If by "parody" you mean "laughing stock", then Yes.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
don't worry about what others are parodying around with your movies.
No no no, Lucas owns copyright on parodies too. And the parodies in question are called "The Phantom Menace" and "Attack of the Clones."
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
The assault rifle ban expired. I thought the lottery was safer than that.
Except Jobs is not guilty of foisting Jar Jar Binks on the Mac zealots. Although a lot of people were upset with how Jobs handled the clone wars.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
"ith the Internet to unite fanboys worldwide, he could face organized boycotts, negative reviews, and negative word of mouth advertising."
Yeah! That's how we took down Microsoft!
"Derp de derp."
It was tricky as I was both Vader and Skywalker and we only had one Storm Trooper
The true (and most frightening) question is "you did you dress up in the Leia slave costime?"
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