Kickstarter is campaigning to remove the rat from The Departed

Adam Sacks was a video editor on a mission: to create a Kickstarter to digitally erase the rat that appears in the last scene of Martin Scorsese's award-winning film The deceased. But unfortunately, It seems that Sacks's dream may not become a reality, Warner Bros. then launched a request for DCMA's copyright withdrawal to cancel the project.

Sacks was trying to raise $ 4,000 for the search for the rat kidnapping, which he describes in the campaign as a "painful metaphor" that ruins the end of an otherwise great movie. (I'll be honest, I've never really seen The dead, but I will believe his word.) The project had actually achieved his goal last week, but with Warner Bros. who is now claiming a copyright infringement, that will probably not happen.

The request of Warners Bros. does not divide things about his problem with the project: "This campaign aims to numerically delete a rat from the end of our film, and promises to distribute the edited images once completed, which is a violation of our copyright laws. author in this film. "

The $ 4,000 would have been used for an oddly accurate list of costs to achieve that dream, including the purchase of a Blu-ray copy of Parties ($ 18.91), a Blu-ray player ($ 141.54), a Blu-ray disc extraction software ($ 59), hiring visual effects artists to remove the rat ($ 599, so that Sacks can avoid filling out tax forms), printing on 35mm film ($ 414.59), scanned again to re-edit it in the film ($ 169.92), purchase an Adobe Creative Cloud license of one month ($ 57.69), blank Blu-ray discs ($ 38.31), Sharpies ($ 2.71) and trainee payment engrave fixed copies and send them to the backers ($ 350 at a rate of $ 15 / hour for 25 hours).

Sacks had planned to try to avoid copyright problems by not "technically" selling his hard copy of Partiesbut instead accept donations of $ 70 so that he can "buy you a legal Blu-ray of Parties, discard this disc, replace it with my higher version and send it to you by post. Unfortunately, it seems that the attempt to evade these copyright problems has failed.

The risk of such artistic daring was always present – Sacks warned on the Kickstarter page that there was a chance that Warner Bros. can take the project into execution.

All ambitious projects carry risks and this one is no exception: mainly Warner Bros. Parties and may not appreciate that I repair their film. But if I do not get a letter to stop and abstain and I get $ 4,000, it will happen. So please give me some money so that we can digitally erase the rat from the end of The Departed.

Yet, everything can not be lost. Bags already commented on his Twitter account @RatErase that he is working on an answer, we will have to wait to see if he has found a way to keep the dream of a cup without a rat Parties living.