kivalo21 wrote:
All they did for the characters with voices was take audio clips from the show. So it's not like they would have to pay the actors to go back in and record everything. And although I don't know ANY of the details on their contracts, wouldn't you think it's FOX that owns the at least the "likeness" if not the rights to the recordings? I'm sure they could find SOMEONE who sounds like Milhouse that can say a few lines.
Although, as I learned in college while taking a contracts course: Not much else matters except what's in the contract.
This is what I was thinking too. I would guess FOX owns the rights to the already recorded voice tracks from whatever episodes the celebrities have appeared in. So, they should be able to use these for TSTO. But there's probably some legal issues FOX doesn't want to potentially deal with and decided against using the voice tracks.