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Yogi Bear Alternative Ending Creates A 'Squiffy' Fair Use Question
from the not-your-average-parody dept
A bunch of folks have been sending in this viral video of an "alternate ending" to the new Yogi Bear movie. It's what you might call a... much "darker" ending, based on the The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Don't watch this if you don't like bear-on-bear violence.
What struck me, frankly, is the somewhat amazing quality of the work, which was done by a single guy, Edmund Earle, who had the idea for the parody after seeing the trailer for the Yogi Bear film right after having watched The Assssination of.... The Wall Street Journal scored an interview with Earle, where he admits that he's on "squiffy" legal ground, though he's not using any actual footage from the movie but created the work himself, and believes he's done so entirely as a parody. What will be interesting is how Warner Bros. reacts to this. It seems like it should be protected fair use, of course, but Hollywood isn't always known for being supporters of fair use.
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I love it!
Let's hope Warner has a sense of humor, albeit a little one...
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Takedown notice filed in
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The best part...
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So we hate singles now?
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So we hate singles now?
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I mean, I didn't even know you were married until you posted about the old chick's cleavage today, which was weird, but yeah...
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I went for a cheap gag, but clearly the force is with you.
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Wait...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0QXB5pw2qE
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A real Boo Boo
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Doesn't Everyone Know...
Studios are not known for their sense of humor, so I'm betting that this will get the old take-down notice, regardless of whether it's fair use or not. As far as the studios are concerned, it's better to act first, then forget about apologizing later.
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ARE YOU ALL BLIND?
It is hilarious, but to believe that this wasn't planned exposure to amp up the promotions for the movie is silly. Peace
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Not that they couldn't have intentionally used cheap fur, but that seems like a strange choice for obfuscation.
Plus it diminishes Edmund Earle's accomplishment here to suggest he's faking responsibility for the interests of some studio.
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Render time on a home PC using Mental Ray would be a few weeks on a home PC but thats about it.
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Yes, the fir looks out of the box, other parts of the animation could also be done a number of cheep ways (there are tons of pree-made buildings for 3d studio max for example.)
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Of course Yafray, Indigo and others can be used.
Also there is this guy on YouTube making 3D models of all old cartoons.
http://www.youtube.com/user/johnpicha
Space Ghost
Herculoids
Penelope PitStop
Captain Caveman And The Teen Angels
Those are just a few he made.
Somebody should make a P2P renderfarm, we could have much more animations coming out from the amateur side of things :)
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why would someone do this
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