Posted by Michael Raben at 63.204.234.5 on September 20, 2001 at 16:28:56:
In Reply to: To Kevin Smith himself, or anyone that would know. posted by TheSilentBobWay on September 19, 2001 at 20:04:43:
: I am making a small movie for school and have decided that I want to have Jay and Silent Bob show up at the end of the movie. My question is if anyone knows the copywrite rules for this venture. Thank you for your time.
In the real world, you're not supposed to do anything like that, lest the legal thunder comes down and smotes you where you stand. However, if this is some tiny project that's never going to be distributed or used to make anybody any money, then knock yourself out. As a rhetorical question though, I'd have to ask what an artist who's doing an original project needs with someone else's characters showing up at the end?
Always,
Michael Raben