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This situation sort of reminds me skateboarders who skate in "no skateboarding" areas. It might be cool when you do it and no one will really care, but when the

This situation sort of reminds me skateboarders who skate in "no skateboarding" areas. It might be cool when you do it and no one will really care, but when the cops come and tell you to break it up, it's pretty stupid to get into a fight about it. It doesn't really matter the quality or the size of the frames, either. I'd be on Paramount's side if someone were distributing Top Gun Viewmaster reels, too. If you don't have distribution rights to something, you can't distribute it regardless of how innocuous it seems.

digitalengineer 13y ago
On the other hand: What kind of people enjoy looking at stills of TopGun? Well, their (Paramounts Topgun's) biggest fans of course. Instead of killing this they should be realising there is value in tweeted stills of (famous) movies and they could experiment with their own twitter-stills (and behind-the-scenes and what not). People apparently want to consumne stills of your product,give it to them! (Edit: and provide the iTunes link).
onetwofiveten 13y ago
It's really very different. Paramount are doing something that only hurts fans of their own movie. The fact that they are legally entitled to is beside the point. Paramount are legally entitled to pull all copies of Top Gun off the shelves and stop selling it. People would probably complain if they did that too. If there is enough of a public backlash, Paramount will reverse their decision. It's much less stupid than getting into a fight with some police. Also, there is the matter that the public has the right to complain about laws that they feel are unfair. In this case, copyright law has over-reached beyond what many people feel is the purpose of the law (protecting content creators profits from infringing competition). Your attitude seems to be one of "well, it's the law, what did you expect?" The answer to that question should always be "fair laws that exist to serve the public interest".

digitalengineer 13y ago

On the other hand: What kind of people enjoy looking at stills of TopGun? Well, their (Paramounts Topgun's) biggest fans of course. Instead of killing this they should be realising there is value in tweeted stills of (famous) movies and they could experiment with their own twitter-stills (and behind-the-scenes and what not). People apparently want to consumne stills of your product,give it to them! (Edit: and provide the iTunes link).

onetwofiveten 13y ago

It's really very different. Paramount are doing something that only hurts fans of their own movie. The fact that they are legally entitled to is beside the point. Paramount are legally entitled to pull all copies of Top Gun off the shelves and stop selling it. People would probably complain if they did that too. If there is enough of a public backlash, Paramount will reverse their decision. It's much less stupid than getting into a fight with some police. Also, there is the matter that the public has the right to complain about laws that they feel are unfair. In this case, copyright law has over-reached beyond what many people feel is the purpose of the law (protecting content creators profits from infringing competition). Your attitude seems to be one of "well, it's the law, what did you expect?" The answer to that question should always be "fair laws that exist to serve the public interest".