Recently, US judges have ruled against creaters of satire on many occasions. I wouldn't trust it, or fair use for that matter. We're better off assuming fair use doesn't apply.
I'm not particularly well-informed on this matter, but I vaguely suspect exceptions for parody and fair use are the most likely to be a problem.
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See http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody for court decision protecting parody.
And in favor of them just as often. The Matell lawsuit against the band who sang "Barbie Girl" was dismissed. Zoe Daniel Ehrenberg name12323@hotmail.com wrote:Recently, US judges have ruled against creaters of satire on many occasions. I wouldn't trust it, or fair use for that matter. We're better off assuming fair use doesn't apply.
I'm not particularly well-informed on this matter, but I vaguely suspect exceptions for parody and fair use are the most likely to be a problem.
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Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
Recently, US judges have ruled against creaters of satire on many occasions.
Can you cite particular cases? I don't know of any.
I wouldn't trust it, or fair use for that matter. We're better off assuming fair use doesn't apply.
In general, I agree, but keep in mind that if we so much as quote a single line from a copyrighted source, we're doing so via fair use. If an article about Richard Nixon quotes a single line from his autobiography, which it easily could, then that's fair use.
I don't think it's practical for an encyclopedia to never quote copyrighted sources at all. And so I'd say we should generally try to avoid fair use, but decide on a case by case basis for each "kind" of fair use.
--Jimbo