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Either way you are essentially just taking advantage of the marketing budget and production of someone else.
by pfisch 11y ago
Either way you are essentially just taking advantage of the marketing budget and production of someone else.
- TheDong 11y agoAnd The Martian took advantage of NASA's budget and Star War's budget by also being about space. And OS X took advantage of Microsoft's marketing budget for the idea of Laptops / computers. Who cares if you're gaining recognition by making a derivative of something that already exists? When some parent product marketed something, it was for its own benefit. If I also benefit, that doesn't mean I'm stealing their marketing budget out from under them, it means I'm taking advantage of what people already are familiar with. I do think your statement that someone making a derivative work is taking advantage of the original's marketing budget, recognition, etc.... I just don't see why that matters. Hell, the derivative work often-as-not can act as further marketing for the original.