Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Fair use and parody

Producers or creators of parodies of a copyrighted plan accept been sued for contravention by the targets of their ridicule, even admitting such use may be adequate as fair use. These fair use cases analyze amid parodies (using a plan in adjustment to blow fun at or animadversion on the plan itself) and satires (using a plan to blow fun at or animadversion on something else). Courts accept been added accommodating to admission fair use protections to parodies than to satires, but the ultimate aftereffect in either accident will about-face on the appliance of the four fair use factors.

In Campbell v Acuff-Rose Music Inc17 the Supreme Cloister accustomed apology as a fair use, even if done for profit. Roy Orbison's publisher, Acuff-Rose Music Inc, had sued 2 Live Crew in 1989 for their use of Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman" in a biting rap adaptation with adapted lyrics. The Supreme Cloister beheld 2 Live Crew's adaptation as a abusive annotation on the beforehand work, and disqualified that if the apology was itself the artefact rather than acclimated for simple advertising, bartering auction did not bar the defense. The Campbell cloister aswell acclaimed parodies from satire, which they declared as a broader amusing appraisal not intrinsically angry to badinage of a specific work, and so not admirable of the aforementioned use exceptions as apology because the satirist's account are able of announcement after the use of the added accurate work.

A amount of appellate decisions accept accustomed apology as a adequate fair use, including both the Second (Leibovitz v Paramount Pictures Corp) and Ninth Circuits (Mattel v Walking Mountain Productions). Most recently, in Suntrust v Houghton Mifflin, a clothing was brought abominably adjoin the advertisement of The Wind Done Gone, which reused abounding of the characters and situations from Gone with the Wind, but told the contest from the point of appearance of the disciplinarian rather than the slaveholders. The Eleventh Circuit, applying Campbell, accustomed that The Wind Done Gone was a adequate parody, and alone the commune court's admonition adjoin its publication.

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