It won Best Animated Short at the Oscars...

They should have just made it so that he was the one who invented the auto-save feature after finally deciding he’d had enough with people resetting the game. Like, have him tell you about it at the beginning of the game and maybe also have his face pop up the corner every so often with a speech bubble showing him…

I wonder what YouTube videos will be considered important lost media in the future...

They worked with Disney on promotional material because Disney decided to approach them ahead of time, but given the timeframe, eBay was most likely a part of the movie already regardless. (And the fact that the movie inaccurately depicts the way their bidding system works also seems to imply that eBay didn’t actually…

If it just featured the game itself (as opposed to being some kind of adaptation) and it was clear that it didn’t have any actual relationship with Activision, then yes, it would probably be fine. I suppose they could still sue you, but anyone can sue anyone for anything. It doesn’t mean they have a case.

Direct quote from a producer of Ralph Breaks the Internet:

“She described how every movie and tv production has to get permissions for every brand shown to appear”

They absolutely both count as expressive works. There’s no question about that whatsoever. The difference in scale could make a difference for a fair use analysis, but that’s it.

I agree with you on the fact that it’s a First Amendment issue, but that’s *absolutely* what makes sense and the way things should be. The government obviously shouldn’t be able to create private causes of action that violate the First Amendment. Imagine that the government makes a new copyright law saying that you…

And the government can’t enforce the law in a way that would violate the First Amendment. I don’t understand what you don’t understand about this. Imagine that the government makes a new copyright law saying that you have a “copyright” over any speech made about you whatsoever, good or bad, but it only provides for a…

If the Humvee side won this case, it could arguably set a precedent allowing literally any company whose products have ever been depicted in any form of media to sue over it. Plus here, the statute of limitations alone should prevent most of their claims, anyway.

1) Yes, it should affect everyone, not just big publishers. The predominant purpose of copyright law was always supposed to be to benefit the public. While IP holders benefit from having the rights granted by copyright, the granting of those rights is meant to incentivize the creation of new content for the public,…

Except that you’re neglecting to consider that if you have a game on the disc and the disc is damaged, you can buy a working used copy. That’s not an option for digital games. If they’re gone, they’re gone, and there’s no way to ever get a copy again. (Or at least not legitimately, and not even illegitimately if no…

“A day will be coming soon when a major content provider will invalidate licensing for all of our digital purchases.”

I would guess the Netflix version will probably stay up, though, since it was produced for them specifically? Or is that going away, too?

Just add a provision to copyright law saying that if an IP holder stops distributing something for which they own the copyright, that thing becomes semi-public domain and anyone can distribute it with no legal consequences up until it gets official distribution again. That would both encourage the IP holder to keep it…

Same. Though they’ve been slowly making it worse for a while now as they keep removing features. The best thing about it was that it had everything in one place.

If it does a good job of being vague and nonsensical in an interesting way, does it really matter? I love those kinds of things regardless of how much they make sense in the end because they feel so much more unique than most things that get made. I still haven’t seen Westworld, but the second season of Legion is my…

They also make it incredibly easy to push a particular narrative. That doesn’t really apply much in this particular case, but I see things all the time where sites cherry-pick tweets to make it look like there’s some kind of consensus when there definitely isn’t or even when whatever view they’re pushing is actually…

It’s probably just some kind of subconscious thing because Pixar has never done a fantasy movie other than Brave and never done humanoid characters who weren’t humans or toy versions of humans (unless you count Inside Out), while DreamWorks has done things like How to Train Your Dragon and Trollhunters. The actual…