Humor, Media

Too good to pass up

5 Comments

• On 12.04.07 JT wrote these pithy words:

  Don’t need to worry about Billy Joel. Parody’s are a form a free speech, so no need to get permission from the original creator. Weird Al just does it because it makes him feel better that he got the authors permission.

• On 12.04.07 mike wrote these pithy words:

  Thanks for the comment JT, interesting to note that parody is protected speech. Wonder when that one will be overturned?

• On 12.04.07 JT wrote these pithy words:

  I remember there being a court case last year maybe involving a parody that was posted to youtube, forget what it exactly was, but ruling was because of it being a parody its free speech.

• On 12.04.07 Mike wrote these pithy words:

  Thanks JT, that might make an interesting entry in its own right. I’ll have to take a look into that.

• On 12.05.07 Lane Hartwell wrote these pithy words:

  Hempey used my photo of Valleywag’s Owen Thomas in the video. I was never asked for my permission. The photo was shot for Wired News many months ago, when Owen was still with Business 2.0. I maintain the copyright on the image and have contacted Hempey.