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____tom____today at 12:08 AM3 repliesview on HN

Yeah. I'm gonna have an LLM rewrite Star Wars and then film it. Should be fine, right?


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wongarsutoday at 8:40 AM

Making a movie that has basically the same plot as a previous movie with slight changes is a common occurrence.

The thing you have to be wary of with movies is trademark law. Your Star Wars copy can't use the word "Darth Vader", that's trademarked. It can't use Darth Vader's mask, Darth Vader's suit or Darth Vader's breathing either, all trademarked. And with trademark law the bar to pass is basically "would a reasonable but uninformed consumer be at risk of confusing your product for the trademark". LLMs can't launder that for you. You have to make actual changes, like Spaceballs did

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processunknowntoday at 12:20 AM

LGTM. copyright laws don't matter anymore.

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deadbabetoday at 12:16 AM

Star Wars itself is a rewrite of King Arthur stuff so go right the fuck ahead.