The Legality Of Parody Websites

from the copyright-violations? dept

Since we've been having so much fun with the question of copyright violations around here, I thought I'd put up this interesting article about the legality of parody websites. Basically, they say that even though most parody websites use trademarked and copyrighted items in their sites, they're protected under fair use rules. Oh yeah. Fair use. I remember when that used to actually mean something...

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    Anonymouse, Jun 5th, 2002 @ 10:38am

    In order to parody a website you first must have free speech. Once we have that we can continue this discussion.

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