Can you parody me now?
Ron ColemanPamela Chestek, as is her wont, asks a great question in this post. As usual, however, before repeating her question we need the background, to wit (footnotes omitted): The Office…
Fight for your right to parody. Or don’t.
Matthew David BrozikSometimes, just when a copyright dispute is getting very interesting, the parties go and do the unthinkable: They resolve their differences like reasonable people, and then there’s nothing left to…
Best of 2010: Foul ball?
First published on March 2, 2010. Louis Vuitton Malletier and its lawyers demonstrate how to make sure a few seconds of what they say is trademark dilution get a lot…
Foul ball?
UPDATE: Per Marty Schwimmer: Hyundai ran a commercial with humorous depictions of what it would be like if luxury items were widely available. Policemen would eat caviar, yachts would be…
Hitler on copyright
The “Downfall parodies” aren’t really parodies, in the legal sense. But as this one demonstrates, “Hitler” does seem to understand something about copyright, law, IP management and, of course, slaloming…
Get out of jail, postage due
Bob Ambrogi reports on some cease-and-desist follies involving GET OUT OF JAIL FREE and Mr. Monopoly, which of course are the intellectual property of the Monopoly people over at Hasbro.…
Imagine no religion
Guy makes a video parodying the deification of Obama Barack, and posts it on YouTube. Looks like it hit a little too close to home. After a slew of complaints…
Zombie on zombie action
The Escapist (via Punning Pundit): In a battle that refuses to die, publisher Capcom filed a pre-emptive lawsuit against the Dawn of the Dead film owners as part of a…
Litigation Guy, updated
Ron ColemanEleven months ago I wrote about Carol Burnett’s lawsuit against 20th Century Fox, based on a tasteless parody of her “signature” charwoman character. I worked so hard on that post…
The original parody guide to law school – “Welcome to Lincoln Law”
Ron ColemanInstapundit is rife with gag guides to law school, and some serious ones, too. Been there. Done that — in this 1992 article called “Welcome to Lincoln Law” (in the…
Wal-Mart pushed back on dubious trademark threats
MarketWatch reports this story about an opinonated gent who’s suing Wal-Mart for a declaratory judgment: Smith said he was making a point by comparing the giant retail company to the…
The Parody Bomb Goes Off
When it rains, it pours. Via Andrew Sullivan (and reported here too) a report that Volkswagen is going to sue— in the UK — the pair who made that tasteless…
See Dick Win. Pay, Defendant, Pay.
By now you must have heard about the dustup involving Yiddish with Dick and Jane. The irony for me is that not long after I was learning to read English…
See Dick Win. Pay, Defendant, Pay.
By now you must have heard about the dustup involving Yiddish with Dick and Jane. The irony for me is that not long after I was learning to read English…