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Re:The Moral Economy of the Shire by dylan604 on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @11:34AM (#40575658)
Do copyright rules exist differently in Japan than the US? Can you imagine if I created a movie that occurs within the accepted Star Wars universe so that my protagonist was from a planet called Tatooine who had a sister that was a princess? I would be sued into oblivion.
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Re:The Moral Economy of the Shire by BlarfMcFlarf on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @12:21PM (#40576138)
Of course you do the copyright scrubbing. Tatooine/Force/Jedi becomes Batoone/Energy/Cyberist(or something similarly inexplicable).
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Re:The Moral Economy of the Shire by astrange on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @07:10PM (#40579876)
They're stricter in Japan if anything, but companies are better at knowing where their creativity comes from. (Domestically, I mean. They're pretty bad at it internationally.)
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