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slouchypaul — 10 years ago(February 04, 2016 08:05 PM)

I wonder if the people that made this movie had to ask George Lucas for permission to make fun of Star Wars.
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You never have to ask permission to spoof something. If you did, SNL wouldn't have lasted 2 seasons.
You can't, however, sell merchandise based off of that spoof without permission because now you are dealing with copyrighted/patented objects.

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The answer is in the trivia

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