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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
2001 · Film · 104 min
Part of Jay and Silent Bob Collection
Directed by Kevin Smith
When Jay and Silent Bob learn that their comic-book alter egos, Bluntman and Chronic, have been sold to Hollywood as part of a big-screen movie that leaves them out of any royalties, the pair travel to Tinseltown to sabotage the production.
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Does Blender own any IP rights over that model? A quick search shows it is based on the Orangutan character from the 2001 movie "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back".
How is it that people still don't understand the concept of "likeness rights"?
California, in particular, is quite aggressive about the legal rights of celebrities to control their own images.
The movie Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is both hilarious and based on the theme of people getting in trouble because they don't understand likeness rights.
Fun fact: WWWBoard had a brief cameo in the movie "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" -- their official community site used the script for many years after most had moved on.
??? Are you for real? Just google "stoner movies".
Off top of my head: The Pineapple Express, This is the End, Harold and Kumar go to the White Castle, Jay and Silent Bob strike back.
Be careful if the photo includes a person’s face prominently. If it does, the person in the photo has likeness rights in the photo[0] which the photographer cannot assign to you without a signed model release form from the subject of the photo. Most Flickr photographers are amateurs who don’t have model release forms for their photos.
Plenty of lawsuits have occurred around the use of Flickr photos without model release forms (there is also a major sub-plot in the Kevin Smith movie “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” that revolves around likeness rights).
Creative Commons is not enough when there are prominent faces in the photo.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights
If only the easter egg showcased one of his other roles such as cocknocker from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back [0].
[0] http://m.imdb.com/name/nm0000434/filmotype/actor
Smith has hinted in the past that Kevin Mewes's ongoing battle with addiction has been a serious barrier to making more of those movies. IIRC, Kevin Smith mentioned that Clerks 2 would only happen if Mewes could stay clean for an extended period of time.
I enjoyed most of Smith's work (Clerks, Mallrats, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Dogma or Chasin Amy), so I hope another one comes out eventually, the guy has a knack for non-pretentious, easy-watching yet somehow socially provocative without being preachy flicks.