NinjaPirate
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Quote:You are partly correct and I apologise - some companies may ALLOW fan use. They usually cover themselves with an open contract posted to their website or the like.Originally Posted by Durakken
No.
As I said, this is because various companies have come out and said you're allowed to use their products in certain ways. This as well as their actions constitute a contract. Though that would be hard to argue with most companies I know of 1 company that has gone on records and said this. That's nintendo.
But we're talking Superman, and other Comic book characters here. Well, Almost all comics I know of have their copyright and what your allowed to do with their trademarked characters in every comic. Part of that is the allowance of independent drawings containing their characters to be sold.
I forget the exact language used but it's in there.
You can also paint a picture of say Superman and it'd still be considered fair use due to it could be construed as commentary.
This is not Fair Use. This is a contract. The two are not the same.
Fair Use, specifically DOES NOT NEED PERMISSION from the owner.
Fair Use is limited to, really: A) commenting on the work, such as a movie review, B) transforming the work, such that it can be said that the new result stands on it's own even without the previous work, and C) works of parody.
If your picture of Superman was done as part of a work discussing the character, it's A. If the picture was using the Superman character to address some political, social or other issue, it's B. If it was just making fun of Superman, it's C.
If you picture of Superman was just straight up him standing there, not being ironic or funny or anything, then unless covered by any "fan contracts" DC might allow, it's flat out just a violation as soon as you transfer it to anyone.
Otherwise it'd be legal for me to draw Superman, slap the drawing on a shirt, and sell them nationwide.
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Quote:Technically this is not correct. It fails points 1 and 3 of the list.Originally Posted by Durakken
I can draw a picture of Superman and sell it.
However, it is unlikely DC/Warner will do anything about it unless you're doing it a LOT, and publicly.
This is because while companies under the current system DO have to aggressively go after violations they know about, they often tend to ignore fan work, as most of the time they can claim they "didn't know about it".
It all boils down the the requirements of trademark that the owner must make reasonable efforts to protect their work.
Currently, the courts find that a requirement for owners having to take legal actions on violations they didn't know about to be, well, unreasonable.
However, if you become too big a blip on their legal radar, they will launch the rabid lawyer dogs.
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Quote:Or that he was flying a bit, but dismissed it as his imagination.Originally Posted by QuiJon
No he said something like "For a moment i felt like i was flying" indicating to me that he was recognizing the idea he DIDNT actually fly just had the sensation of doing it.
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Quote:Yeah, his question made me lol.Originally Posted by Veritech
perhaps that would be because the Sahara is in Africa?
And if you KNOW you're going to get out of it just fine, having seen the future, giving yourself up in a trade isn't a bad idea.
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Quote:Nah, it was in the actual X-books.Originally Posted by M_I_Abrahms
There's a group page where a bunch of X-folks are all crowded around Cyclops's desk complaining about the team assignments, and Wolverine is in a corner also complaining.
I cannot remember what issue it was in.
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Quote:Except that his posts here are full of grammatical and spelling errors, and in general written like a 12 year old would.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
i'm fairly confident it's not trolling per se. More like attention-seeking behavior due to a desperate need to be the center of attention. Most of their posts i've seen aren't really trolling, just nearly pure nonsensical opinionated fluff chattering.
His other posts in other threads are articulate and 'normal', with actual real sentence structure and mostly proper capitalization.
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Quote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o1wind1iUcOriginally Posted by Exodus_V
I dont know i kinda liked it...what was the opening? Its sad i cant remember alot of Iron Man 2...i can remember most if not all of the first one
Other alternate openings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kl78AVS8L4
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Okay, glancing at his post history I'm pertty sure Dz131 is just trolling.
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Quote:Oh, god, you were serious.Originally Posted by Dz131
Um I'm pretty sure a samuria could easil slice throgh a knights armor + swords in 1 slash. Katans are just so much suprerior that Europ is luck they never fought with japan back in the medevial age.
You actually believe that Katanas are magic or something.
Just stop. Maybe go do some actual research on the subject that isn't a cartoon or movie. The sword nerds in here will eat you alive.
And I say this as someone who actually HAS 'yellow' skin.
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I remember a gag line a few years ago where Wolverine was in Cyclops's office and was all like, "Dude, you can't put me on EVERY team!" and Cyclops was all like, "Why not?".
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Quantum stabilizers have a loud droning noise attached to them.
Deleting them sometimes leaves the sound effect behind. It should go away the next time you load into the base.
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I would start by browsing through the stickied posts at the top of this forum.
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Quick suggestion: Start playing around with the 'Floor Safe' and the 'Floor Tile' from the Room Details tab to see how they might be used to "float" floor objects, and the 'Cubicle' from Other Furniture similarly for wall objects.
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"It's finally ready! You know, I went through quite a few supers to make it worthy to fight you, but man, it wasn't good enough! After you trashed the last one, I had to make some major modifications. Sure, it was difficult, but you are worth it. I mean, after all... I am your biggest fan...
All I wanted was to help you. I only wanted to help, and what do you say to me? It tore me apart. But I learned an important lesson. You can't count on anyone, especially your heroes.
See? Now you respect me, because I'm a threat. That's the way it works. Turns out there are lots of people, whole countries, that want respect, and will pay through the nose to get it. How do you think I got rich? I invented weapons, and now I have a weapon that only I can defeat, and when I unleash it...
Oh, ho ho! You sly dog! You got me monologuing! I can't believe it... "
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I only have the magazone cos it's part of the Gamestop member card deal.
It's good for passing the time in the bathroom.
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Quote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GowFRZvZaMgOriginally Posted by Durakken
I would pay if they did it right for some games... like Halo. I love what I know about Halo's universe, but I'm not a big FPS fan so I'm likely to never see the story.
The problem here is not the concept... it's the price and the brands they have to work with.
Hmm?
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I only realized who it was because the short bit of the credits they played before they showed her listed the actress as playing Jill, and I was wondering "When did SHE show up?"
Then the bonus clip appeared and I was "Ahah!"
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I wouldn't even think about doing that without an emergency parachute on.
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Bringing Monty Oum onto the animation staff really made the fights so much better.
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If you can find a theatre that doesn't how it in 3D, heh.
About 80% of the places near me all have the 3D version.
I hate it cos I wear glasses so I have to perch the 3D glasses on my glasses and it's awkward and I get a headache.
But the movie itself is I think worth at least a matinee showing price.
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Quote:Well, apparently You Know Who won't be the only main villain - trying not to give spoilers, but people have noted that there was something that looked like a parachute in the sky, unnoticed by the protagonists, after that last 'purge' explosion.Originally Posted by OzzieArcane
Because frankly, you know who just wouldn't work as the main villain.
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Quote:Everquest used to do this kinda thing pretty frequently.Originally Posted by Durakken
Also I wish that the Devs on CoH would play and mess with people like I've heard people say Jack used to, make GMs spawn and kill people and such... That's part of a game idea I've had, make the main villain a player of sorts that actually interacts... Imagine a Lord Recluse player that could run around Paragon City and spawn arachnos Soldiers or an archnos GM? That would be epic...
Many of the zones had toggles a GM could trip to trigger zone-wide events, like the sky turning blood red and all the normal zone creatures changing to zombies & skeletons. GMs could also spawn most monsters and take control of them to rampage around.
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Quote:Steam has released figures last year indicating they usually get an overall profit INCREASE during big sales. Some titles by four digit percentage figures when placed at 75% off. When they put Left 4 Dead on sale, profits jumped by 3000% over the usual numbers for the duration - without impacting brick-n-mortar retail sales numbers at all.Originally Posted by Cantatus
Not sure if it's a good thing for Steam or not, but it's gotten to the point where the only time I buy something on it is when it's marked down. Since they have so many really good sales, it sort of explains why I have such a backlog of unplayed games.
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