Never even slightly suggested you're "dumb" or "incompetent".
When I hear "maybe they just don't know", I think about it from the point of view of there being thousands of producers and fictional characters being one of the most popular things in this community, so... not a single one of us has possibly had the idea to combine the two? Really?
Maybe saying "dumb" is stronger language than you intended, but that's usually what people are implying when they go down this road. After all, this is the community that thinks the bulk of us are too stupid to actually hire ticklish models. Anyway, sorry for the snark.
I purely asked why. Seeing as it's seemingly totally ok to do a Black Widow and call it "spy", I was asking why nobody had done a "librarian" or "warrior" or whatever. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
Key word: "seemingly". For one thing, "he did it and got away with it, therefore it's okay" is not a smart philosophy to have, when it comes to sue-happy companies like Disney and Marvel. Marvel sued NCSoft for the
possibility that people could dupe their costume designs in City of Heroes back in the day... and now Marvel belongs to Disney. You'd have to be an idiot to think dancing on that line would be a good idea.
There's also the idea that Black Widow's costume isn't particularly unique. It's a catsuit. Unless your model had red hair and was being tickled by the Red Sk... uh, the Crimson Cranium (OC DO NOT STEAL), you could probably make a good case that you weren't infringing.
The thing about Belle or another more unique look is that you kinda have to have the whole look. You can't have a blonde Belle with long hair, or a green costume, or whatever; most of Disney's princesses are unique-looking enough that if you came anywhere near them and had any kind of verbiage in your video/title/description to allude to the fact that it might be Belle, Disney would have a case. And even if they didn't,
none of us have the money to fight it in court. And even if we did, it wouldn't be worth it simply to be allowed to keep selling our $5 video.
So... a librarian? Sure. A brown-haired librarian in a blue dress with a white apron being tickled by a dude in a fursuit? Oh, hello Mr. C&D. Please don't hurt me. Otherwise, you'd just be lost in the sea of other clips because no one who would want to see Disney princesses in a tickling video are searching for "librarian".
Costumes in general just suck, anyway. The off-the-rack stuff looks like shit and costs too much for what it is, and you'd risk damaging the good stuff too much to want to use it.
