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Lucasfilms Nixes Star Wars Live Screening

Posted by michael on from the mst3k dept.

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?"

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  1. Rocky Horror? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nothing funnier than a room full of geeks dressed as Boba Fett shouting "LOOK SIR, DROIDS!" simultaneously.

  2. LucasArts don't like parody by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  3. Re: ya know... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


    > 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.

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