On Sunday 07 June 2009 02:23, Take a wild, friggin guess wrote:
> It's not that; it's the legality of it. I cannot legally produce
> something with the intent to sell it, if the work featured within belongs
> to someone else (such as a studio). I certainly don't want to piss of WB,
> Disney or PBS!
Actually, the illegality only applies if you are "trading under" the
trademarks in question. The key, which some groups are using to sell in
volumes probably far larger than you are looking at here, is that what you
are selling is a disk of artwork by Des that happens to be parodies rather
than a disk of parodies that happen to be by Des.
That they are parodies gives you another layer of protection, and depending on
the characters involved there might not be any problem at all, (one of the
ways of losing a trademark is to stop using it).
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Chakat Firepaw - Inventor & Scientist (Mad)
Received on Sun Jun 07 2009 - 16:26:37 CDT