Does Disney just not care about all the unlicensed Etsy, Ebay, etc stores?
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badboibill
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I brought this up on "The Vault" facebook group and Deanna from Vader's Vault got pretty upset. It was very interesting...
TheUnchosenOne
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That's because it's not actually true. Even among the ones that are for canon hilts, a lot of those aren't ripped from the movies, and that's very, VERY far from a majority of sound fonts
badboibill
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I'm willing to bet that if I purchased the "movie based" sound fonts and loaded them into Ableton and compared the .wav to the movie foley, they would be exactly the same sound. I mean, that's the idea right? People want the exact same foley from the movies?
TheUnchosenOne
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Maybe those specifically, but I've got 4 Luke RotJ sound fonts on my V2 and they all sound different, so I'd still take that bet
DarthBrooks24
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Well if they had ever given us half of the quality that the non licensed folks have given us over the years we'd just buy it all from them wouldn't we
badboibill
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Yeah but who knows where those .wavs came from... There's more than one "ignition" in ROTJ... and on top of that you've got Battlefront and a whole host of video games to pull from. You might have 4 Hero fonts, but there's probably like 16 or more I bet... all created by Lucasfilm and not whoever is selling them *at profit* on saberfont. Whether it's illegal or not to sell somebody else's foley, idk... I do know that the concept of selling somebody else's creative work at profit sort of rubs me the wrong way.
badboibill
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Oh absolutely. I'd love nothing more than being able to pay for uncompressed .wavs of Burtt's work. Sadly, it doesn't look like that's going to be an offering from SkySound at any point
Why did CF get issued a C&D letter for his Captain America shields ?
Lucasfilm (now Disney) learned a lesson from CBS/Paramount's enforcement of Star Trek rights... Don't pi$$ off your most loyal portion of your fan base. As a result they really on enforce things when it becomes poking them in the eye... Lets hope it stays that way.
Jedi Dade
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xl97
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There was a another member here who did blanks and he also has vanished.
Guess the bear got poked enough to come out of hibernation
Guess the bear got poked enough to come out of hibernation
Yep. You push it too far and the bear can get angry. I have heard of some who ignored a C&D letter and I am sure that only pissed the bear off even more, lol.
When you are a small time prop builder and do small runs here and there and treat this like a hobby, they usually leave you alone. But you start making this into a business, and start to turn a good profit... then they might just set their sites on you. We see many prop makers start up web pages, and start advertising all over the internet, and that is only drawing more attention to their business.
Everyone seems to like to speculate about this subject, and convince themselves that Disney is avoiding "poking themselves in the eye", so they proceed without any concern what-so-ever, then they get surprised when the LP owner cracks down. These are the same people who will cry fowl when the company comes down on them and take to the forums to compain that they are unfairly being targeted.
We are ALL playing in the studio's sandbox, and if they decide to kick us out in the form of a C&D or lawsuit, we cannot cry or defend our position.
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