Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:28:28 -0400
From: Andrew <puppetvision-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] CBC Sketch


I should have added to that blog post that while don't really know Mike, I
met him a couple times years ago and he's a very nice, very talented guy (I
don't know who the other puppeteers were). I think the CBC is at fault on
this one, not the puppeteers, who were probably totally unaware of the Homme
family's issue or the fact that CBC didn't own the characters.

It's interesting that Saturday Night Live will have the actual Muppets on as
guests, but if they do a sketch that mocks them they get their prop/wardrobe
people to make puppets or costumes that obviously resemble the characters,
but aren't exact copies. I have no inside knowledge of how those decisions
get made, but presumably it's to make it clear they are doing a parody and
not attempting to infringe on any copyrights or trademarks.

Smart lawyers those SNL folks must have. Smarter than whoever raided the CBC
Museum to do that award show sketch anyway.


On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:00 PM, <puptcrit-request-AT-puptcrit.org> wrote:

>
> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:16:57 -0400
> From: Jamie Ashby <jamie.ashby-AT-utoronto.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] CBC Sketch
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> Message-ID: <1C5BBF79-2224-4B85-8162-D0EC2A64EC2E-AT-utoronto.ca>
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>
> Dear Andrew and others,
>
> You have clearly thought upon this much more deeply than I have. I
> found your article on the subject particularly interesting. I
> originally wrote out of emotion, as Mike Harding is a good friend of
> mine, and I applaud your well-reasoned analysis of the "incident."
>
> Best,
>
> Jamie Ashby
>
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