MacGyver Should Sue MacGruber. Right?
Considering the way that judges have been ruling lately, seemingly bending over backwards in an effort to “protect” intellectual copyrights against evil writers (see: J.D. Salinger v. John David California), musicians (see: GirlTalk) and artists (see: Shepard Fairey) I am waiting for the next law suit to be filed in MacGyver v. MacGruber.
See, MacGyver was a TV from the 80’s where a guy would somehow extricate himself from a bad jam with nothing more than a stick of gum, a ballpoint pen and his belt.
MacGruber is a Saturday Night Live skit in which Will Forte plays a guy who tries to do exactly what MacGyver did, but fails.
Now, there would be absolutely no entertainment value at all to MacGruber if it weren’t for the existence of MacGyver. One could easily argue that the producers of MacGruber should pay the producers of MacGyver for having taken their premise and turning it into a mockery.
Of course, MacGruber is a parody and should be protected from such a law suit.
In fact, I’ll bet the MacGruber people are already figuring out how much it is going to cost.
Tags: copyright, Intellectual Property, Law, macgruber, macgyver, Television
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July 9, 2009 5:10 pm
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