Marvel Zombies Fan Film Creators Interviewed
Revenant Magazine has an interview up with Jim Ojala and Scotty Fields, the creators behind the fan film “trailer” for Marvel Zombies: The Movie, including some great “behind the scenes” photos. If you missed out on seeing this when we first posted it, unfortunately the YouTube link is dead, with this message posted instead:
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Marvel Entertainment, Inc.
You would think that Marvel would embrace this for what it is…a fan film. DC did it with Batman: Dead End, why can’t Marvel?
EDIT: Thanks to Revenant for letting us know that the video is available again via MySpaceTV:
The reason for Marvel to be anal about it could have something to do with protecting their copyright. Supposedly your right as a copyright-holder gets weaker juridically if you don’t act when someone abuses it. So it might just be the Marvel layers going apeshit over this, since not acting would make their job that much harder in another case in the future.
Not sure if this aplies to this exact scenario though, or if I’ve confused American copyright law with the Swedish one… It’s only a thought, so never mind. Go DC, anyways!
We just heard from Jim Ojala that it was actually Youtube that pulled the plug on the film from their site over potential copyright infringement. No word if Marvel had anything to do with that. However, the film has found a new home via Myspace TV here: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=24033837
enjoy another helping of this one.
correction: It was Marvel that forced Youtube to remove the film.