[WikiEN-l] Solution to BJAODN criss

[The Cunctator]

On 6/5/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Counterexample:
> >
> >
> http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/documentary-film-program/film/a-fair-y-use-tale
> >
> > A short film explaining the concept of fair use that was cobbled
> > together entirely from clips of Disney movies.
>
> That's not a collection of copyrighted works for the sake of it,
> that's using a copyrighted works to illustrate the discussion about
> fair use.
>
> > One could well consider BJAODN as an example of parody, in fact. :)
>
> A parody of what? "parody" doesn't just mean something funny. It has
> to be a parody of something, and then you can use that something under
> fair use. BJAODN would have to be a parody of itself for that to work,
> which is obviously nonsense.


Most of the content of BJAODN is pretty clearly a parody of normal Wikipedia
content. It has a lot in common with the Uncyclopedia (though frankly
Uncyclopedia is amazing).