Blog Post 5

The Star Wars Mountain Dew film flirts heavily with copy right infringements. Most of it is ok and within legal limits of not breaking anything, but some parts do. For instance, the first thing I saw was the opening credits the famous Star Wars Yellow text telling us a story about what the film is going to be about. The creator of the movie should not of used the actual Star Wars logo as that is copyright protected. For a spoof film they should of gave is a different title such as the spoof film “Space Balls” it can purposely look the same style, but it cannot say “Star Wars.” The film creator did a good job by not using any actual Star Wars music either which is also copyright protected. The next issue I was the film used a Star Wars video game for the opening scene which is probably a copyright issue too. Lastly the film used a can of Mountain Dew and showed the logo, so with out paying for it that’s an infringement too. The most important thing to consider here is that as long as the film is never published the editor is probably fine, but placing it on youtube may have been a bad choice as now its public. People post songs and many things on youtube and it becomes a copyright gray area. Making spoof films is ok just like Space Balls did about Star Wars, but they slightly alter all the iconic parts of the film so it looks close, but its not the same, so therefore no copyright laws are broken. This film maker missed a few of those.