A judge has upheld Sony’s rights to digitally alter buildings and billboards in its movies.
Some folks (billboard owners, in fact) had sued Sony because the company had superimposed its own product placement ads onto billboards and building sides in Spider-Man.
The judge rightly noted that this is, in fact, art, and if it’s okay to have some guy in armor blowing up buildings and people, it’s okay to have a fictional billboard digitally deleted or changed.
He also dismissed the (ye gods) claim that Sony “tresspassed” by digitally scanning their buildings with lasers.
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