[PA Comic] Friday, December 20, 2013 - The Statute

Geth

The Statute
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/12/20

Durkhanus

Pompe II: The Wrath of Vulcan.

Gosling

How am I gonna be an optimist about this?

Nijhazer

This thing's gonna get buried at the box office.

LostNinja

I really want to watch some MST3K now...

Raiden333

Nijhazer wrote: »

This thing's gonna get buried at the box office.

I dunno, I think it'll explode.

miaAusa

Yay a return of Divx and fruit fucker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how awesome, I am really digging the mst3k reference quite a bit it does make me want to watch more of it now

Nijhazer

Raiden333 wrote: »

Nijhazer wrote: »

This thing's gonna get buried at the box office.

I dunno, I think it'll explode.

A friend and I got into a big argument about this the other day. He had a major meltdown and threatened to kick my ash.

I'd Fuck Chuck Lidell Up

miaAusa wrote: »

Yay a return of Divx and fruit fucker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how awesome, I am really digging the mst3k reference quite a bit it does make me want to watch more of it now

I just watched a bunch of the Rifftrax last night. Not good at 3AM with people sleeping in the other room

MichaelLC

I hope it's historically accurate and features The Doctor saving that family.

Rhesus Positive

If it's really accurate, it'll feature two Doctors.

Skull2185

MSTPA!

Spaffy

Gosling wrote: »

How am I gonna be an optimist about this?

But if you close your eyes...

Spaffy

Also, the first paragraph of the news post is damn-near gibberish.

joshofalltrades

I'd Fuck Chuck Lidell Up wrote: »

miaAusa wrote: »

Yay a return of Divx and fruit fucker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how awesome, I am really digging the mst3k reference quite a bit it does make me want to watch more of it now

I just watched a bunch of the Rifftrax last night. Not good at 3AM with people sleeping in the other room

The Twilight Rifftrax is phenomenal.

Also, I just watched Angels' Revenge (MST3K) and I'm sad that I overlooked that episode before. It's really great.

ragnarok628

That title is typographically hideous.

Henroid

Skull2185 wrote: »

MSTPA!

Uh oh, Best Brains is going to copyright notice this comic!

they actually can, they somehow own the theater seat concept

joshofalltrades

Wouldn't it be fair use as a parody?

fightinfilipino

joshofalltrades wrote: »

Wouldn't it be fair use as a parody?

yes, but fair use only comes in as a defense to a copyright infringement claim. in other words, PA couldn't affirmatively claim fair use. Best Brains would have to first file a claim against PA for infringement, and then PA would have to argue that they're covered by fair use.

for non-trollish parties, the usual approach is to research first if it's even worth the cost of litigating, perhaps send a letter to the supposed infringer for a cease and desist or some other agreement outside of court. in this case, i'd say even trying to enforce the "theater seat concept" is risky since Siskel and Ebert and a ton of others have pretty much used it, and you can copyright a specific expression (ie published work like writing or film) but you cannot copyright a general idea (the concept of a silhouetted audience in a theater).