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# Shit! You're broadcasting the Hertzfeldt stuff
run before the lawyers get here. It's The Neville all over again.
(, Tue 16 Aug 2005, 10:41, archived)
# eh?
(, Tue 16 Aug 2005, 10:41, archived)
# Wasn't it Neville who was threatened by the Hertzfeldt lawyers
over copyright and stuff.
(, Tue 16 Aug 2005, 10:42, archived)
# I dont know
I never heard about that.
(, Tue 16 Aug 2005, 10:43, archived)
# At least I think it was Neville but one of the b3tans
was threatened over using a vaguely similar style to Hertzfeldt all of his stuff has since been taken from his website and shoved on a dvd/cd for sale. So the one who brought us "I'm a consumer whore!" turned into a corporate whore and there my opinion of the bloke was forever sullied.
(, Tue 16 Aug 2005, 10:44, archived)
# I'm sure it was
Neville
(, Tue 16 Aug 2005, 10:45, archived)
# styles aren't protected by copyright
copyright protects expression, not ideas. So if I draw a hand ticking a box, I can't stop anyone else drawing a hand ticking a box unless theirs is identical to mine. Obviously there's a grey area but you really have to copy a specific thing before you're looking at infringement rather than use a similar style.
(, Tue 16 Aug 2005, 11:50, archived)
# I'm sure
90% of cease and decist messages are founded upon nothing.

Most people can't be bothered to get a lawyer to find out, though.
(, Tue 16 Aug 2005, 12:16, archived)
# yeah something like that
can`t really remember though
(, Tue 16 Aug 2005, 10:44, archived)
# wha?
(, Tue 16 Aug 2005, 10:42, archived)