I noticed a number of posts about how Best Brains is trying to control people making fun of movies and such, and it really isn't true. They actually seem to be pretty loose with what they let people do with the MST3K name. For example, at my school, there is a group that does MST3K showings every week, for free. BBI gave them permission to do this. This group also staged a live performance a while back where they made fun of a play. They even had robot models they had built of Tom and Crow, and people dressed up as the characters from the show and everything. BBI knew about and allowed this too.
The point is, they are not evil corporate types bent on enforcing their trademarks with an iron fist. They just don't wan't a random group of Texans using their name (basically) without permission for it and doing comedy that doesn't fit in with the original show. If these guys weren't ripping off the MST3K name/reputation, there'd be no problem.
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I noticed a number of posts about how Best Brains is trying to control people making fun of movies and such, and it really isn't true. They actually seem to be pretty loose with what they let people do with the MST3K name. For example, at my school, there is a group that does MST3K showings every week, for free. BBI gave them permission to do this. This group also staged a live performance a while back where they made fun of a play. They even had robot models they had built of Tom and Crow, and people dressed up as the characters from the show and everything. BBI knew about and allowed this too.
The point is, they are not evil corporate types bent on enforcing their trademarks with an iron fist. They just don't wan't a random group of Texans using their name (basically) without permission for it and doing comedy that doesn't fit in with the original show. If these guys weren't ripping off the MST3K name/reputation, there'd be no problem.