Rights?
How were they able to use all those characters (Batman, Superman, Joker etc...)? Don't you have to have a license from DC to do that since those characters a owned by DC?
shareIt is only a FAN FILM. He cant make a penny from it.....because of the license.
DC owns the charaters on paper and Warner Brothers owns some of the film rights and other companies owns others.
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OK, so bascially anyone can do this? For example say I want to make my own sequel to Jurassic Park, or my own Sequel to Mission: Impossible I cant do that just as logn as I don't make a penny off of it? Is that how it works?
shareSort of. Although, Warner Brothers and DC comics stated that you can no longer use anyh of there copyrighted charaters in film, even in fan films.......
I can not do all the good that the world needs, but the world needs all the good that I can do.
Technically no.
It doesn't mean Warner has the rights to make films for money, it means warner has the rights to make films period. Any fan get get sued for making a fan film at any point, regardless if they sell it or not.
DC or Warner usually doesn't care enough to spend the time and money, but if it gets large enough, they'll do it.
Technically no.
It doesn't mean Warner has the rights to make films for money, it means warner has the rights to make films period. Any fan get get sued for making a fan film at any point, regardless if they sell it or not.
DC or Warner usually doesn't care enough to spend the time and money, but if it gets large enough, they'll do it.
Actually, I'm kinda surprised they haven't pursued anything. There's a bit of copyright law that alot of people don't know about, companies lose their right to intellectual property if they don't pursue it. Basically, if you have a registered IP, then someone violates your IP with your knowledge, and you do nothing, that means you concede your IP rights.
shareSort of, it would depend on a lot of circumstances. When I was a kid me and my friends did make our own little sequel to Jurassic Park using someone's dad's video camera, some dinosaur action figures someone's brother's Jeep and the JP soundtrack for background music. If we would have sold video tapes to anyone, or sold tickets to watch it (not that anyone would have paid to see that crap) that would have been illegal, but us just *beep* around with a video tape to show our friends I think is what is legally termed fair use. If Youtube had existed back than we would have put it there and I'm not sure about the legality at that point. It's one of those things where it's fine for me to draw a picture of Mickey Mouse and hang it in my living room, but if I own a daycare center I can't just draw Mickey, Donald and the rest of the Disney crew on the walls of a profit making business.
shareJust to clarify, Warner owns DC. Or rather DC falls under the Time/Warner umbrella. You will never see DC outsource any of it's material because of it's connection to Warner.