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Cruising For Sailors.

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:35 pm
by bcdcdude

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 3:21 pm
by Trog13
Sounds hot.

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 5:07 pm
by Protodude
Sounds worse than Shenmue: The Movie. Which was'nt to bad, but you might as well play the game instead. Plus, this movies only 6 minutes?

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:34 pm
by Delphine
It was for <a href="http://www.newfestival.org/cgi-bin/iowa ... ilm=704">a film fest</a>, which is why it's so short.

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:33 pm
by bcdcdude
Surely the whole thing is illegal though? I can't imagine Sega giving the go ahead to someone making a Shenmue movie about Ryo looking for some hot sailors...mind you they've done a lot of stupid crap lately so i shouldn't be surprised...

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:14 pm
by Dache
Parody laws.

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:43 pm
by Delphine
Yup. Parody is fair game.

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 3:03 pm
by Trog13
Unless you use someone else's characters to help parody something else. Then the people that own those characters can rape you.

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 5:36 pm
by Esrever
But do parody laws cover lifting the actual visuals or audio directly from the source material? I'm pretty sure they don't.

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:58 pm
by Protodude
Who knows, but the festival was in june, so they haven't gotten in trouble yet. By the way, was I the only one who didn't realize it was a gay movie until I clicked the second link?

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:12 pm
by Delphine
I'm pretty sure that six minutes of source material from a huge game like Shenmue isn't enough to violate copyright anyway, parody or not.

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:22 pm
by Spazz
Do people who make AMVs get sued? I think not.
Whether they're selling it or not.

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:09 pm
by Esrever
I think it's more likely that it does violate copyright law, but that no one cares. ;)

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 3:29 pm
by Titan
The whole Shenmue sailors thing has been run into the frickin' ground <_<