“In space, no one can hear you scream.”
“You can’t say that.”
“I just did.”
“But it’s a trademark; you can’t say that.”
“I’m not trying to promote my scary new movie about a space monster.”
“Doesn’t matter; it’s copyrighted.”
“Piffle.”
“You’ll think differently when you hear from their lawyers.”
“Oh, come on. It’s just a fact: There’s no air in space, so there’s nothing to carry sound, so if you managed to live long enough to scream, no one could hear you.”
“Well you can say it that way, but the way you said it first is protected by copyright.”
“I wasn’t saying it to sell anything. The copyright is for a movie tagline. If anything, when I say it, people will think, ‘I remember that movie, it was good. I should see it again.’ It’s free advertising for them.”
“I don’t know. I’m still worried you could get sued.”
“You know, of all the things I’ve learned over the years, one of the truest is that most things I worry about never happen anyway.”
“Oh my gaw. You are crazy. Do you want to have lawyers all over you?”
“What?!”
“That’s a Tom Petty song!”
“What is?”
“‘Most things I worry about never happen anyway’! It’s in a song!”
“So what?”
“So you can’t say that! It violates the copyright!”
“That’s so stupid. But I guess what a fool believes, he sees.”
“NOOOOooooo….”
