Mad Dog
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Great idea. Schedule a meet up and have everyone bring a tool of destruction. :thumbsup:Who wants to help me help Uni get started on demolishing the FFL theater?
Great idea. Schedule a meet up and have everyone bring a tool of destruction. :thumbsup:Who wants to help me help Uni get started on demolishing the FFL theater?
My vote goes to "Party All the Time"
Christopher Ripley is now hearing of the AoV location being FFL.
You mean he's finally hearing what I have literally been intimating for a month?
Why would Legal have issues with a comedy show?QUOTE -
"It was the same concept as Bill and Ted, only with different hosts. It didn't get approved by Legal."
Why would Legal have issues with a comedy show?
Could have been rights. Could have been concerns about hewing too close to infringement. Either are legal matters.Why would Legal have issues with a comedy show?
Why would Legal have issues with a comedy show?
Good legal perspective points, all. :thumbsup:Main issue is IP infringement. However you slice it, you're doing a theme park show with another company's characters. This was a huge issue in 2006 when B&Ts Jack Sparrow was basically just a better version of the Disney version. It's a more minor thing, but even music licensing is a challenge when doing a show--you may have heard the law is any band can perform any song live, which is true, except in a theatrical production. I know a second Moana parody was cut last year, I assume for fears stemming from that.
As for the real people parodied, still have to worry about defamation--tough to prove in this day and age, but not impossible--as well as bad press. Think the blow-up over the Mitt Romney sketch in 2012. One joke in poor taste about Bill Cosby or Trump could get the company lit up on social media and TV.
Partly it's the hypersensitive era we seem to live in. But a lot of it is also HHN is an international event now, not a goofy after-hours thing put on for a couple thousand hard-core local fans. You can get away with a lot more when no one's paying attention to you.
Not to derail too much, but isn’t parody protected free speech? SNL gets away with itMain issue is IP infringement. However you slice it, you're doing a theme park show with another company's characters. This was a huge issue in 2006 when B&Ts Jack Sparrow was basically just a better version of the Disney version. It's a more minor thing, but even music licensing is a challenge when doing a show--you may have heard the law is any band can perform any song live, which is true, except in a theatrical production. I know a second Moana parody was cut last year, I assume for fears stemming from that.
As for the real people parodied, still have to worry about defamation--tough to prove in this day and age, but not impossible--as well as bad press. Think the blow-up over the Mitt Romney sketch in 2012. One joke in poor taste about Bill Cosby or Trump could get the company lit up on social media and TV.
Partly it's the hypersensitive era we seem to live in. But a lot of it is also HHN is an international event now, not a goofy after-hours thing put on for a couple thousand hard-core local fans. You can get away with a lot more when no one's paying attention to you.
My guess is even if they may ultimately come out on top they don't want to go to court and also want to avoid issues that potentially create bad PR. I think the fact that B&T was a tradition and was hard for them to let go probably kept this type of show around well past it's time for the current state of Universal. I think shows like AoV and Jabbawockeez are what we can expect from now on. I could see them doing something with a little more comedy, but the issue with that for now and the next few years is it would be immediately compared to B&T and without the edgy content would get poor reviews.Not to derail too much, but isn’t parody protected free speech? SNL gets away with it
Main issue is IP infringement. However you slice it, you're doing a theme park show with another company's characters. This was a huge issue in 2006 when B&Ts Jack Sparrow was basically just a better version of the Disney version. It's a more minor thing, but even music licensing is a challenge when doing a show--you may have heard the law is any band can perform any song live, which is true, except in a theatrical production. I know a second Moana parody was cut last year, I assume for fears stemming from that.
As for the real people parodied, still have to worry about defamation--tough to prove in this day and age, but not impossible--as well as bad press. Think the blow-up over the Mitt Romney sketch in 2012. One joke in poor taste about Bill Cosby or Trump could get the company lit up on social media and TV.
Partly it's the hypersensitive era we seem to live in. But a lot of it is also HHN is an international event now, not a goofy after-hours thing put on for a couple thousand hard-core local fans. You can get away with a lot more when no one's paying attention to you.
Not to derail too much, but isn’t parody protected free speech? SNL gets away with it
Not to derail too much, but isn’t parody protected free speech? SNL gets away with it
QUOTE -
"It was the same concept as Bill and Ted, only with different hosts. It didn't get approved by Legal."
out of the dozens of things they could have done and they tried for a clone of Bill and ted?
kinda pathetic..... good riddance i guess