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There you go, awkward Japan...Korea. Just like my icon... get it?
LOL.
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It looks like Wonder Girls are blowing up in the Statesl. I don't know what happened to R.Kelly and JYP's relationship, but I guess it all went down the "pisser".
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On another note, I realize that USA is a big country but isn't it amazing how an "artist" can get so big just by dropping a name at a club and having their videos catapult them to the top?.
I don't know about Japan, but EVERY Korean mainstream and indie musicians/artists/ have to perform at least three live shows EVERY weekend on major network channels and let their fate decided by viewers. From veterans to the noobies, from hip hop to ballad to rock to dance and so on.
Can you imagine Britney Spears doing three live shows every weekend for few months?, she will booed off the stage faster then her ex husband.
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Fantom literally did a scene-for-scene reshoot (not a reference, homage, or parody) of SQEX IP and (here's the important part) charged money for it via digital distribution.
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Say the next time someone gets risky with their pop video and goes a llittle strong on the sex appeal, and as a result moms don't buy their kids FF7 Advent Children based on its association with said pop star. O say that the crono remake was buggy as hell and people refused to buy square games until something was done about it. SE doesn't have to be dragged down by others riding their coattails.
To make a musical analogy, SE has a legal and fundamental right to keep people from jumping up on the stage during their set.
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The Robot Chicken skit, for example, was fair use even if it affects "associations with their property worldwide" (even though they charge for DVDs, they created something original using FF as inspiration). And if I want to make an erotic comic starring Cloud and Aerith and post it on my website, I can do that.
I can do anything I want with their IP. I just can't simply copy it or charge for it.
But point made that Crimson Echoes looked too much like a SQEX product despite the originality in other areas. I guess it's not such a different situation when you look at it like that.
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That's not at all the case. Robot Chicken is fine because it is parody. It's a comment/critique on the IP, not a mere derivative. Your comic, on the other hand, sounds merely like a side-story or sequel; courts have found that such is not fair use. See, for example, the recent case regarding the "sequel" to Catcher in the Rye.
Generally, you're in the clear if you're working on something that is primarily "criticism, comment, scholarship, research, news reporting or teaching".
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I guess the nitty gritty specifics of it we can argue about all day is what makes copyright law so damn complicated. No wonder no one knows where to draw the line...
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I do understand what you mean about the legal precedent though. At its ultimate application, there's a very good reason Nintendo can't put cloud in their next game.
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Yes Im still bitter about Crimson Echoes.
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Although I'm sure DQIX made them a pretty penny.
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Even though they may not have released a new numbered FF they've released plenty of DS games, Crisis Core, Dissidia, a few 360 games.
They do other things besides Roman numerals.
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I did enjoy Crisis Core as repetitive and random as it was though. Dissida... Well I get the feeling it's not going to fair so well.
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I know the courts had made their decision and all, but just trying appeal that decision can increase the punishment's severity?
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Look up anything about the American Needle and the NFL to check this out. American Needle filed an anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL and lost, but the NFL wanted the appeal heard because they are betting the Supreme court will decide they are 30-something separate entities instead of one organization. The league owners will make a killing and the players and fans will get screwed, but that argument is better saved for deadspin.
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Because there shure is tons of people out there who only appeals to gain more time.
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