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My favorite is 'old dog new trick.' I won't post a link myself because I once spent a long email thread with Larson's secretary trying, and failing, to get per
by pjmorris 7y ago
My favorite is 'old dog new trick.' I won't post a link myself because I once spent a long email thread with Larson's secretary trying, and failing, to get permission to use the cartoon in a slide deck. He has described that he thinks of the cartoons as his children and that, like children, he wants to know where they are. I respect that, though I wish he felt differently.
- paulddraper 7y agoIf used for educational purposes, it would probably fall under fair use.
- pjmorris 7y agoPerhaps. It's about six years too late for that particular presentation, but there will always be more presentations.
- lilyball 7y agoBeing legally okay isn't the same thing as being right. For a similar reason, Weird Al Yankovic always gets permission before publishing his parodies even though he doesn't have to.
- 27182818284 7y agoFor what it is worth, Yankovick has done the opposite of your comment at least once. Yankovic specifically got legal permission for his song Amish Paradise but not what was arguably "right" meaning permission from the artist Coolio who said no. Yankovic did it anyway. Years later, they are reportedly "cool" now according to Yankovic: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1h7afc/i_am_weird_al_yankovic_ask_me_anything/carj75a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1h7afc/i_am_weird_al_...
- teach 7y agoThat's pretty misrepresentative of the events. Yankovic _thought_ he had gotten permission and when he later found out Coolio hadn't been consulted he was mortified.
- lilyball 7y agoNot only that, but this episode also only serves to prove Yankovic's point, that it's best to get permission even if you don't legally have to.
- 27182818284 7y agoThat's fair. I'll concede on that. You're right.
- 27182818284 7y agoFrom what I've read he knew he had permission from the record label, and knew he didn't have Coolio's blessing. I wasn't there, but it seems unlikely that if he immediately had turned around like "wow I didn't know" the so-called beef wouldn't have lasted years until they made nice. From: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bp/coolio-did-not-want-weird-al-spoof-gangsta-205954306.html https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bp/coolio-did-not-want-w... >Coolio said when Weird Al initially requested to remake the song, he said, "No," but later realized that, due to the fair use copyright laws, he could not stop the production. >Coolio later reconsidered Weird Al's proposal. "I sat down, and I really thought it out," he told the students at IPR. "I was like, 'Wait a minute.' I was like, 'Coolio, who the f—k do you think you are? He did Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson didn't get mad.'"
- lilyball 7y agoYou're citing an interview with Coolio, which doesn't reflect Weird Al's experience. I don't have a citation on hand, but the story I've always read is Weird Al asked Coolio's label, got a "yes" back, and believed that the label had asked Coolio. Ever since then he made sure to get the answer directly from the artist in question.
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- juped 7y agoPretty rich of him to be upset over a parody version of his rap version of a Stevie Wonder song.
- baddox 7y agoBut "doing whatever the creator wants" also isn't the same thing as being right.
- waynecochran 7y agoIt is in this case.