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

GethGeth LegionPerseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
edited December 2013 in The Penny Arcade Hub

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  • DurkhanusDurkhanus Commander Registered User regular
    Pompe II: The Wrath of Vulcan.

  • GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    How am I gonna be an optimist about this?

    I have a new soccer blog The Minnow Tank. Reading it psychically kicks Sepp Blatter in the bean bag.
  • NijhazerNijhazer Sunnyvale, CARegistered User regular
    This thing's gonna get buried at the box office.

  • LostNinjaLostNinja Registered User regular
    I really want to watch some MST3K now...

  • Raiden333Raiden333 Registered User regular
    Nijhazer wrote: »
    This thing's gonna get buried at the box office.

    I dunno, I think it'll explode.

  • miaAusamiaAusa GOD Gamer Of Daters ValhallaRegistered User regular
    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

  • NijhazerNijhazer Sunnyvale, CARegistered User regular
    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 UpI'd Fuck Chuck Lidell Up Registered User regular
    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

  • MichaelLCMichaelLC In what furnace was thy brain? ChicagoRegistered User regular
    I hope it's historically accurate and features The Doctor saving that family.

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    If it's really accurate, it'll feature two Doctors.

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    MSTPA!

    Everyone has a price. Throw enough gold around and someone will risk disintegration.
  • SpaffySpaffy Fuck the Zero Registered User regular
    Gosling wrote: »
    How am I gonna be an optimist about this?

    But if you close your eyes...

    ALRIGHT FINE I GOT AN AVATAR
    Steam: adamjnet
  • SpaffySpaffy Fuck the Zero Registered User regular
    Also, the first paragraph of the news post is damn-near gibberish.

    ALRIGHT FINE I GOT AN AVATAR
    Steam: adamjnet
  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    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.

  • ragnarok628ragnarok628 Registered User regular
    That title is typographically hideous.

  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    Skull2185 wrote: »
    MSTPA!

    Uh oh, Best Brains is going to copyright notice this comic!
    they actually can, they somehow own the theater seat concept

  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    Wouldn't it be fair use as a parody?

  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited December 2013
    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).

    fightinfilipino on
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