How is this legal?


Making ripoffs of hit movies in theaters. WHY? HOW? WHEN? WHERE? The Davinci Code got THE DAVINCI TREASURE, Snakes On A Plane: SNAKES ON A TRAIN, and THE OMEN: 666: THE CHILD. WHY?????

I have had it with these motherfu[king snakes on this motherfu[king plane!]

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They make small changes so they can't sue. Like with King Kong. They never say it is Kong so they have no proof that they took the name. They are basically making movies that are VERY similar to the real deal but make sure they don't get into trouble

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King Kong name can not be trademarked so it perfect legal to use King Kong name for free what out getting sued.

King Kong is also public domain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong

As for the movie it is a loose adaptation of the public domain The Lost World
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_Lost_World

They would have to make sure that the ape looks different enough that have been shown in the theatres, Tv series and DVDs.

The 2005 King Kong was an adaptation off of the King Kong 1932 public domain novel.

This was proven on November 24, 1976 and in 1982

This movie company like did not know that King Kong name can not be trademarked so anybody can King Kong's name without paying any money to anybody.

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They are all mockbusters,a mockbuster is perfectly legal to make they don't need to pay anybody or get licenses or permission or whatever.A mockbuster would be considered fair use

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