Talk:A Day With SpongeBob SquarePants: The Movie (Rare Direct-to-DVD Release, Late 2011)/@comment-27545953-20160104192904/@comment-27487604-20160105204325

I know that Viacom did not agree to any order barring Reagal from releasing information on the movie, as we formally decided not to take anything to court. If Reagal said that they cannot talk about the film for ten years because of a court order, then it must have been a claim made by another company (probably music licensing, because I doubt the tune played over the end credits was property of Reagal) or just a false statement (the untrustworthy credits make it seem like the studio was rather unprofessional, so I wouldn't be surprised if they made something like that up). I suppose that the man who reported the unauthorized image usage to me was able to view the movie in its entirety, but I am unsure where he could have obtained the film aside from Reagal themselves. We attempted to reconnect with the Reagal employees to announce our decision not to sue them a while back, but we never received a response. We could probably request access to the film for legal purposes; however, I am only an asset manager and I'm not sure that I have the authority to demand the movie. If I did have the power, there would definitely be restrictions on sharing it, because requesting it for evidence of copyright infringement makes it very important material.

While I didn't watch it, I don't think that the film's content was too disturbing, because there are specific rules Viacom has laid out for usage of the SpongeBob character in all home video content. However, I'm unsure if the video would be subject to these rules in the first place, because it wasn't created by Nickelodeon. I can partially confirm that it was low-budget, because the credits I viewed were not overly well-done. With today's technology, it would be rather easy to recreate the same credits with computer apps. I can't speak for the actual film's quality, though.