Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: The Monster Mash, It Was A Graveyard Smash- The REAL Frank N. Stein

Fox-Mulder opened this issue on Oct 30, 2000 ยท 8 posts


duanemoody posted Tue, 31 October 2000 at 5:04 PM

Universal Studios has gone to great pains to keep Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, Dracula, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon as licensed properties. Even though Shelley and Stoker's books are in the public domain, the actors plus their makeup were properties of the movies Universal made, so they can do this. And believe me, they do. That "Monsters of Universal" logo is on EVERYTHING with them these days. In another example, when Spitting Image auctioned off their puppets for charity, it was with a clear proviso that SI still retained all rights for performance usage of those puppets, which meant you could hang them in a display case but not make commercials or movies or even public shows with them. Someone out there has an eight hundred dollar figurine of Prince Charles just ripe for razzing, but it ain't gonna happen. As I suspected, the lifecasts are from makeup artists (who probably shouldn't be selling them). All but that first one above are probably kosher as long as the actor doesn't mind.