and you'll have to put a warning up for indigenous people.

depends 6'er, it depends on the photogrpher and when photo was taken. unlikley to be a paraody excemption,

Are they photos of dead people, or photos of people who are now dead?

it doesn't matter about the subject of the photo

what ohyeah said.

hey ohyeah, is it life + 70 or life + 75 now?

it doesn't matter about the subject of the photo

It does if they died gruesomely, and there's blood and gore everywhere. Ever seen a Brujeria filmclip? I rest my case.

life + 70 used to be life + 50

Actually, that makes no sense - I just remembered I have seen a Brujeria filmclip, and it was shit.

Please strike my testamony from the record.

images of hendrix + elvis miiiiiight be trademarked by their respective estates, i think. maybe others as well.

maybe consider photos of impersonators?

Yep, they're ALL dead asides from Keith Richards, who should be.

If I, say, just find images on the net of Einstein, 2 Pac, Jeff Buckley, Kurt Cobain, Jesus etc.

What if I get someone to redraw them?

i've also planned the photos of impersonators route, but then you run into the same 'who owns the photo' rubbish, right?

no photos are not trade marked.

yes re impersonators route

asides from Keith Richards, who should be

Take that back.

if the illustrator is making an illustration based on the photograph which includes a important, distinctive or recognisation part of the original photo, they will need original photograph copyright owner's consent.

what about 3d models of their heads?

Take that back.

It was a compliment!

impersonators route is a good one, or yes as in yes you still run into the same trouble?

that is a design registration.

that isn't to say you can't get an image registered as a trade mark it is just that you can't ''extend'' the life of the copyright by using trade mark law if you are not using that image as a trade mark.

same trouble love sorry

fuck humans! I might make an uncensored one for youtube only

i'm a fuckin 'rebel

Aside from the copyright issues of the photographer discussed above, the route by which you might also get into trouble with the estate of the dead personality is that by using their image you might be implying some kind of authorisation/association from the estate to use the image (depending upon how tightly they control any use of the deceased person's image).

or moral rights of the photographers if you use the photos in a derogatory way.

Celebs/famous people in the states also have a ''Rights of Publicity'' protection, which means you can't use their image commercially without their permission. I don't know if they're still covered if they've been dead for 70 years, or otherwise, though.

What if you take the photographs of the impersonators yourself?

I'll dress up as Blimp Elvis for you, cockneck.

problem solved 6'er, i'd take chips up on that offer.

Get us all to dress up as dead famous people and film yourself rooting our corpses.

holds hand out for moral right to idea cashmoney

now you are getting creative chips and we didn't even have absinthe at lunch

sick

i'm just gonna dress up as myself and die

done!

I think my idea is rad. You could even incorporate coolsie retro polaroids.

Opening scene:
Sixxxer in police station, handcuffed and bound a'la Hannibal Lector. Detective pulls out ominous yellow envelope and empties a pile of snapshots onto a table.

Close up to sequenced polaroids of:

Pills on table; white dress with heels poking out; blonde curly hair; Sixxxer rooting Marilyn Monroe's corpse

Bacon, peanut butter and syrup sandwiches, white sequinned cape; aviator sunglasses; tub of Brylcreem; Sixxxer rooting Elvis dead on a toilet

Guitar; burnt spoon; dirty Chuck Taylors; shotgun; Sixxxer rooting Kurt Cobain as he lies bleeding on a cement floor

Crown; leotard; gay porn video; buck teeth; Sixxxer rooting Freddy Mercury dead from teh AIDZ

Don't tell me this can't be done, cunce.

river, cardigan, bloated corpse, sixxer rooting jeff buckley

nightclub, red velvet, vanessa paridiso, sixxer fucking what initially looks like a twig in cordoray but ends up being river phoneix

gold ring, gold chains, couple of casino chips, sixxer rooting frank sinatra as his baby blues plead.

sixxer fucking what initially looks like a twig in cordoray but ends up being river phoneix

Fuck yeah bish, that's what I'm talkin' BOUT!

Crocodile; khakis; blonde mullet; boat; Sixxxer rootin' Steve Irwin's barbed corpse

Miami Beach; incontinence pads; Sicily; Sixxxer rootin' Estelle Getty in Golden Girls make up

at last he gets to shag a woman.

We can't have that!

We'll get Hootie to dress up as Estelle Getty.