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Posted by Christopher Waldrop
May 30, 2007 |
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Once upon a time a man named Walt Disney started an empire by parodying a popular film in his own cartoon. Today that empire would call such parodying of one of their own works copyright violation…
One of the toughest questions facing our culture today is the nature of copyright. How far do the rights of the creator of a work extend into both the present and future? And do bloggers, for instance, or critics, or teachers, or even other artists, have the right to use parts of a larger work or to parody a work for their own purposes? The answer, as this fairy tale will explain, is yes.

Comments
Wow, a lot of time and thought went into this. I especially liked the FBI warning at the beginning that gave you permission to go ahead and use this clip.