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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?
TV show did, now matter
Now matter? Not matter instead?
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Is this Tech Dirt or Hollywood dirt?
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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re: Ken
More like... "no matter."
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IP is so embedded in the tech field that I don't mind hearing about related cases that might show the current attitudes of the courts toward such things.
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Court Teaches Carol Burnett A Little Something Abo
LOL...A parodist gets offended when someone makes fun of her...how ironic is that?
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Yea, but if it was a parody of Coca cola, or paris hilton, I think they would have found otherwise. Me, you and Carol Burnett got no rights!
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This is amusing...
...considering how many people/companies she parodied on her own show.
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Take that DMCA
*mops up floor with parodied effigy of Carol Burnett's janitor character*
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It does.
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Because no television show has ever made fun of Paris Hilton!
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South Park did an entire episode on Paris Hilton in which her Dog kills its self and she inserts a pineapple into one of her two fun holes.
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Is this Tech Dirt or Hollywood dirt?
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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haha.
Funny article, but i thought i had clicked on my Reuters: Oddly Enough link while i was reading it! TECHdirt........ >.>
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Is this Tech Dirt or Hollywood dirt?
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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Just because all IT is IP doesn't mean that all IP is IT.
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
For wasting the court system's time, Carol Burnett should have to mop floors at Fox for a week.
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As said above this seems way off topic for this site, but if Family Guy made fun of me I would be extremely HONORED.
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Techdirt
Guys, lighten up. There's no reason to get your knickers in a twist just because Mike occasionally writes about issues that are not directly related to technology.
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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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Re: Typo?
retard.
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