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FairUse... being challenged... again

By Zitt

5 years ago


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#19 5 years ago

Geez, that Sneech page is horrifically brazen. It's not so much an "homage" or "interpretation" or "parody" or "inspired by", as it is an outright copy with Star Trek characters. I mean, the "artists" couldn't be bothered to draw an all-new machine with similar-but-different proportions and controls? It's not like "lumpy and crooked pseudo-organic" is terribly hard to draw!

Get the general proportions, embellishments and random details close enough and you can create something original that still honors and recalls its inspiration. THAT is how great parodies, both the obvious and subtle ones, work... incidentally it's how they drew the Star Trek characters, so it's not like it can't be done!

But geez, that page is completely lame: SAME machine... SAME shadows... SAME flourishes. It's a cynical, lazy, photoshop meme copy-paste job.

I'll all for creative appropriation in the spirit of fair use, but man. This is not fair use. What is? Ugh, subjectively defined like pornography as "I know it when I see it".

Keep the text (because prose, rhyme, and meter are constructs free to all, and who hasn't tried to write parody Night Before Xmas, Seuss, or "Weird Al" stylings), but send the "artists" back to the drawing board.

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