Can We Please Stop Using Euphemistic Names for Lightsabers?

[drusselmeyer]

Can Lucasfilm et al even own the Graflex design LS seeing as it is a derivative work?

I remember when they got sued by Mead for using his design.

 

[SethS]

Can Lucasfilm et al even own the Graflex design LS seeing as it is a derivative work?

I remember when they go sued by Mead for using his design.

It's always been an interesting question, the copyright of props. I remember when the Death Note movie had guns that were clearly chrome replicas of Deckard's PKD blaster. Director said it was an intentional homage. If Zack Snyder had used an unaltered Graflex for the last sword handle in Rebel Moon could Disney have sued? (I mean, shocked they didn't anyway over that movie).

The PT lightsabers were designed by concept artists first as opposed to the OT leaving it to the prop team and production designers to cobble together. The ST and newer D+ shows have been made with hiring third part prop teams who sometimes have access to previous production props, and sometimes don't.

When you consider all these factors, what is the IP provenance of a found object that gets turned into a prop?

 

[drusselmeyer]

Considering the trademark not being removed, I'd guess that it would get thrown out of court. I would if it were up to me or I were on a jury.

You can't just claim someone's property just because you have deep pockets just by saying "we repurposed it!"

This would go for the Blade Runner blaster too. It is not a new work, it is product placement.

 

[Psab keel]

So does Chewy but here we are

Everyone worries about Chewie getting a medal, but what? No love for Wedge? The only other official Alliance fighter to survive the battle.

Not only did Chewie get a medal at the MTV awards in the late 90s but I find the "medal for Chewie" more irritating than the goofy saber names. Even arguing that the MTV spoof wasn't Canon, didn't one of those crappy ST movies give him one? I love Chewbacca, but I think people make far too big a deal out of it.

Hell, even R2-D2 got shot by a TIE Fighter, barely survived, and he didn't get any medal. Of any supporting characters in that battle that deserved one, it was him. Bro deserved the Purple Star for bravery. Alliance can't afford benefits though... no funding.

Likewise I find the Order 66 meme for people's take out dinners to be equally cringe inducing.

 

[Treadwell]

Likewise I find the Order 66 meme for people's take out dinners to be equally cringe inducing.

this

 

[Astyanax]

Everyone worries about Chewie getting a medal, but what? No love for Wedge? The only other official Alliance fighter to survive the battle.

There was at least one Y-Wing that made it too.

 

[Psab keel]

Right! Where's THAT guy's medal?????

"Damnit! I want my participation trophy, too!"

 

[Luuke]

Right! Where's THAT guy's medal?????

"Damnit! I want my participation trophy, too!"

What?!? Are you a millennial or something?

 

[Psab keel]

Who gets a trophy?

 

[drusselmeyer]

What about Leia's medal? She faced off against Darth Vader, got captured, tortured, nearly crushed in a trash compactor, shot at, while finding her brother and a helpful pirate along the way, all while getting the Death Star plans to the rebellion.

No medal??

 

[Luuke]

What about Leia's medal? She faced off against Darth Vader, got captured, tortured, nearly crushed in a trash compactor, shot at, while finding her brother and a helpful pirate along the way, all while getting the Death Star plans to the rebellion.

No medal??

She was promoted to General.

 

[Rexermus]

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There was at least one Y-Wing that made it too.

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Excuse you that's Keyan Farlander in Legends and Evaan Verlaine in Canon

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

What about Leia's medal? She faced off against Darth Vader, got captured, tortured, nearly crushed in a trash compactor, shot at, while finding her brother and a helpful pirate along the way, all while getting the Death Star plans to the rebellion.

No medal??

Well you got most, but forgot one little detail. They blew up her home planet and everyone she knew because she resisted.