You misconstrue what it means to "use" art. Creators have a right to be reimbursed for the use of their art as art. Using a house someone else built would be akin to printing out his cartoon, hanging it in a museum, and asking people to pay me to see it. This would be wrong.
If you build a shitty house, however, I have every right to criticize it, using pictures, diagrams, or any other representations of the house to make my point. That is what parody is. It isn't "using" the actual art for its original intended purpose, it is using the art as a representation of itself to comment upon it.
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Re: Fair use? Piffle
If you build a shitty house, however, I have every right to criticize it, using pictures, diagrams, or any other representations of the house to make my point. That is what parody is. It isn't "using" the actual art for its original intended purpose, it is using the art as a representation of itself to comment upon it.
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