According to software engineer Chris Marlow in regards to the parodies featured within Conker's Bad Fur Day, the development team never asked permission when spoofing famous movies. Nintendo's legal team reassured them that as long as their caricatures fell under parody law, they didn't need a license for it. When it came around to remaking the game for Conker: Live & Reloaded, Microsoft's legal team told them that the original content brought over to the remake was protected under prior art patent law, but they couldn't add new content expanding on those parodies as it would mean they modified the original content and would potentially open up Microsoft to litigation.