Court Teaches Carol Burnett A Little Something About Parody
from the funny-stuff dept
Back in March, we noted the irony of famed comedian Carol Burnett suing the producers of the TV show Family Guy after the show included a brief parody of one of Burnett's famous characters. After all, Burnett should know all about parody -- including the fact that it's protected free speech. Unfortunately, it looks like this lesson in parody had to be taught to Burnett by a judge, who explained that there was absolutely nothing illegal in what the TV show did, no matter "how distasteful and offensive the segment is to Ms. Burnett."
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Typo?
Now matter? Not matter instead?
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I'm missing the tech in this artical. Shouldn't this be on E or some entertainment news site where I fortunatly would never see or hear of it?
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I'm missing the tech in this artical. Shouldn't this be on E or some entertainment news site where I fortunatly would never see or hear of it?
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Parody and technology go hand in hand, especially if you've ever used Microsoft Windows.
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Court Teaches Carol Burnett A Little Something Abo
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This is amusing...
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Take that DMCA
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haha.
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I'm missing the tech in this artical. Shouldn't this be on E or some entertainment news site where I fortunatly would never see or hear of it?
this is about IP - intellectual property - which is intimately involved in all kinds of TECHnology...
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This might be in here is because lots of geeks like FG. All of the Trek references in FG attest to that.
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stupid broad
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Seriously. He writes about patents, you bitch. He writes about copyright, you bitch. He writes about gambling embargos, you bitch. He writes about... well, whatever, you bitch.
I don't think it's Mike. I think a lot of you just like to bitch.
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