Training Your Faculty about Copyright When the Lawyer Isn’t Looking
Introduction: We Should Run Like It Is Godzilla
At one point in the spy-caper parody film Goldmember, Austin Powers and his friends are chasing the movie’s villain through Japan. Their car gets stuck inside a giant foam dinosaur, which then drives through a crowded square. Panicked citizens scream and run. The scene then focuses on two Japanese men in business suits:
Man 1 [Brian Tee]: Run! It’s Godzilla!
Man 2 [Masi Oka]: It looks like Godzilla, but due to international copyright laws, it’s not.
Man 1: Still, we should run like it is Godzilla!
Man 2 [to the camera]: Though it isn’t.
Both: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! (Godzilla Scene, 2006)
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