by angilas » Fri Jun 06, 2014 7:42 pm
Ok so mechahopzilla I could see coming a mile away,but the honda add barely even features a fire breathing monster you can't make out in it. That could as easily be infringing gamera (maybe even more likely) or a slew of other kaiju. Its a genre thing and its not even central or prominently featured in the ad. Toho is really overlitigious with that one. I'm still a little resentful of them taking down my music vids along with the entire Earth Baragon org from youtube years ago, having started with them over a decade ago on some really cool ones, while they allowed many low effort ones to remain, but I guess the problem was that we were practically like a business with no capital and maybe some of the vids like anguirusguy and EB's were too good for their own good.
Working in the field now I can see why Toho wants to avoid dilution with some of these and retain the ability to sell Godzilla's likeness to others, but that Honda commercial is just a waste of their time. As for uncle grandpa did the rugrats license Reptar?