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Re: Nike sued over a stick-man drawing?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 19 Jul 2004 04:13:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Saskia van Doesburg wrote:
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In search for the nike commercial I find this
http://www.woosoccer.com/images/fdscoach.JPG
I find that funny. :-)
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The image link didn’t work right because it was in FTX (gotta watch out for
those underscores). It should work right in this post, though.
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I have seen the commercial and I think the guy has a point. The
stickman-animations are well known on the internet. I know in my education as
an animator, the stickman movies were a must see.
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Do you mean the xiaoxiao movies? I agree that they’re amusing (and by “they”, I
mean #3+, since the first two were pretty stale), but it’s still just a
stickman. Given that the basic stickman hearkens back to the days when internet
animations were called “cave paintings”, it seems a bit presumptive to think
that you can copyright the basic stickman (which is what the article seems to
suggest he’s trying to do). If he hopes to have a chance of getting it to stand
up in court, he’d have to prove that he invented the stickman, or at least be
able to show a specific geometry that he consistantly uses. Given that the
stickman looks completely different in close-up than it does from a distance,
that’s pretty hard to justify.
Now, if he’s saying that Nike ripped off the look of the movies and not the
“character”, he might stand a chance of winning his case. I haven’t seen this
commercial yet, but the way the article was presented very much suggests that
he’s claiming copyright on the stick-figure design as his justification.
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| (...) Sorry for that, I normally post through a newsreader. I forgot to change to "plain text". (...) I agree, the principle of the stickman is of course very old. But the look of the character and movements, he might have a point there. (...) You (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| "Purple Dave" schreef in bericht news:I0z7EJ.1FDM@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) 0716/aponbige/chinanikesued1 (...) In search for the nike commercial I find this (URL) I find that funny. :-) I have seen the commercial and I think the guy has a point. The (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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