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| 32689 | Tri-Star Pictures | I can't think of Tri-Star and not immediately refer to the disastrous 1998 Godzilla film. That is the first thing that comes to my head with regard to Tri-Star. But aside from that, they have been involved in a number of awesome films.<br> | Vaporman87 | Dec 31, 2016 |  |
| 32688 | Importing Articles From RetroJunk | <blockquote rel="Linux_Sage"><b>Linux_Sage wrote :</b><br><i> I wonder if there are copyright and other legal roadblocks regarding this. Sure you may be the authors but I'd check the user agreements and other clauses RetroJunk uses to verify whether they claim some sort of ownership of whatever articles the users produce. </i><b>-end quote<br></b></blockquote>Linux I think you were right to suggest that we look into it, and I did.<br><br>I think there is no problem whatsoever. First I could not even locate a copyright visible on Retro Junk although he likely has one. Second hypothetically if he decided he did have some proprietary rights and attempted to go after this site in court he could land himself in trouble because he uses unlicensed images of iconic characters, images of films, and television all over his site (using the reasoning to go after us in the first place). However even that doesn't jive because Fair use <span>in US copyright law covers us (and him, and any other fansites of licensed properties i.e. toys, films, television, cartoon, food products, etc or just about anything we cover in our nostalgia).<br><br>Fair use covers this specific issue I think even if we quote ourselves verbatim for the text and for the pictures as they were likely garnered from our own sources (personal) or public sources (previously put out to public access on the web) so we are not stealing our own creative works we are just republishing it in a new form, anthology, or what you will with a different publisher or venue. Authors do it all the time and unless they specifically sign over the rights to the works they retain them. We were not paid by him to write the articles so there are no first sale doctrines, we voluntarily submitted them as we do here.<br><br>We have a good faith defense even if we are in error because it is reasonable to believe one's own views, memories, stories, and history can be told and retold and are possibly biographical in nature or our express opinions if we are reviewing products and it is reasonable to suppose that we retain rights to our own writing whether explicitly put down in terms of contract or not, which we never formally did with either RetroJunk or RetroDaze. Now if some other clod tried to copy our works as their own we or the sites may have recourse. Or if some nerdbomber tried to copy their sites exactly it could be a problem. Whereas we are reposting our own stuff I think there is little anyone could do to stop us. <br><br>At any rate such frequent mention of RetroJunk in our articles and on the site here is free advertising for him and an homage to the great site it once was. The only thing created by these sites and covered by copyright would be the sites themselves. The creative works on the sites would be under those who created them in my opinion. While not entirely in the public domain (the reason why the wayback machine and internet archive are not sued to the stone age for completely copying websites) our works are publicly accessible and if we decide to put them out there again I feel it is our prerogative. <br><br>Bottom line is this he cannot assert copyright ownership over our works because he cannot establish ownership through authorship (we are the authors), it is not a tangible medium i.e. published book, record, toy, etc., each of our works was never registered for copyright (required for litigation), and in the case of the already said and done Rick's article and mine that is submitted but not yet up both mention that it was previously published on Retrojunk.<br><br>I feel we are covered by Copyright infringement rules, Copyright law, the Digital Millennium Copyright act, and Fair Use.<br></span> | NLogan | Dec 31, 2016 | |
| 32687 | The Post-Christmas Blues | Well I used to be sort of sad Christmas was over when I was a child because that meant winter break was almost over and I'd have to get right back to school but since I have to work a majority of the time anyway doesn't really affect me anymore. | Linux_Sage | Dec 31, 2016 | |
| 32686 | Importing Articles From RetroJunk | I wonder if there are copyright and other legal roadblocks regarding this. Sure you may be the authors but I'd check the user agreements and other clauses RetroJunk uses to verify whether they claim some sort of ownership of whatever articles the users produce. | Linux_Sage | Dec 31, 2016 | |
| 32685 | Tri-Star Pictures | Look Who's Talking one and Too were good. | Mr Magic | Dec 31, 2016 | |
| 32684 | Importing Articles From RetroJunk | I approached this idea back at Retro con and in fact have already submitted one of my articles. Clearly Rick has already also beat us to the punch with his article re-published here. I like the Remastered title and say go for it vkimo looking forward to your remastered series. For me with the article I have already submitted, it was a chance to re-do and improve upon my original idea. I am not sure what proprietary rights Retro Junk has but considering that we are the original authors I felt that I could import it here. I called it a Retro-Junk Retrospective and it is obviously the first of a series for me. I improved upon mine and changed things drastically. However the concepts and some of the pictures are the same. I feel that if we mention that it was first published at Retro-Junk and if the articles are changed slightly (for the better) there can be no bad blood towards our newfound retro playground. In the art world you only need to change something 30% then it becomes an homage instead of a copy and since you cannot plagiarize yourself as we are the authors I see no legal problems. The pictures were likely gotten from public sources anyways. I also added new content so even though it is my old article it is an entirely new piece taken as a whole.<br> | NLogan | Dec 31, 2016 | |
| 32683 | Carolco Pictures | But I liked Cutthroat Island. Well I liked the concept of it. The ship battles were pretty cool. Although I never did like the serrated pirate sword. I really just wanted a modern pirate movie as I was into pirates. My Carolco favorites were:<br><br>First Blood - no surprise as it was already mentioned in the Orion thread (distributed by them)<br>Total Recall<br>Air America<br>Terminator 2<br>Star Gate<br>Last of the Dogmen<br>and of course Cutthroat Island <br> | NLogan | Dec 31, 2016 | |
| 32682 | Inexplicably Inappropriate Vintage Ads | Oh man!!! These are hilarious. Especially the "crybaby" and "Gayer Garments" ads. Hysterical! <img src="http://retro-daze.org/images/smilies/MavLaughOutLoud.gif"><img src="http://retro-daze.org/images/smilies/p12.gif"> | Vaporman87 | Dec 31, 2016 | |
| 32681 | Carolco Pictures | <blockquote rel="Rick Ace Rhodes"><b>Rick Ace Rhodes wrote :</b><br><i> Given that there was a thread about Orion Pictures, why not talk about Carolco Pictures as well?<div><br></div><div>It saw several successes in the 80's and early 90's before going bankrupt in 1995 due to the massive bombs that were Cutthroat Island and Showgirls.</div> </i><b>-end quote</b></blockquote>Cutthroat Island was supposed to be what Pirates of the Caribbean became. Too bad it didn't happen. They'll always be synonymous with the "epic bomb" because of that one picture. <br> | Vaporman87 | Dec 31, 2016 | |
| 32680 | Importing Articles From RetroJunk | I think it's a fine idea. Perhaps we can create a new category for these articles (like we have Photog Smurf Approved, Contest Winner, Featured, Official...) and call it maybe "RJ Classics" or something like that. <br> | Vaporman87 | Dec 31, 2016 | |
