Indy Can't Look like Ford???

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Posted by BMan from ppp2-25.ruralnet.net on December 31, 1998 at 13:35:46:

I've just been re-reading the December PC Gamer cover story on Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine.

They mention that the voice of Indy in the game will not be supplied by Harrison Ford- nothing new there. But they say that since the Indy character and Harrison Ford's likeness exist as separate copyrights, the game developers must make the character look and sound like Indy, but not Harrison Ford.

I admit I know next to nothing about copyright law, but if this is the case, why does all of the cover art for the novels have good likenesses of Harrison Ford? And in The Fate of Atlantis, when you look at a magazine, you see a good likeness of Harrison Ford as Indy, along with Sophia. Similarly, a lot of Star Wars products have a likeness of Ford as Han Solo.

I can see them not being able to afford Ford, but it just seems a little bizarre that they would have to intentionally make the computer character not look like what we've come to expect Indy to look like.

Just a thought.

BMan

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