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Oh seriously? But they are allowed to use the characters? How does that work?
by 2muchcoffeeman 4y ago
Oh seriously? But they are allowed to use the characters? How does that work?
- cygx 4y agoNot a lawyer, but I'm assuming anyone who's mentioned in the Hobbit, the trilogy and the annexes (ie the stuff Amazon bought the rights to) even in passing can make an appearance. However, if these people do things exclusively described elsewhere in the way they are described in those other works, there's an issue...
- mcphage 4y agoRemember recently when a Netflix got sued by Arthur Conan Doyle's estate, because they showed Sherlock Holmes being emotional? The argument was that while the early Sherlock stories were in the public domain, it wasn't until the later stories that Sherlock showed more emotion, and those later stories are not yet in the public domain.
- parkingrift 4y agoThey have access to: Fellowship of the ring, the two towers, return of the king, appendices, and the hobbit. They cannot even accidentally make a Tolkien-accurate story in the universe unless it’s directly depicted in one of the sources I listed above. My assumption here is that they chose to intentionally make a unique story to avoid a lawsuit. However, this is also the equivalent to rewriting the backstory for Jesus and telling Catholics to just give it a chance because the cinematography is so good.