Word: copyright
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...Demon, the raunchy undergraduate humor magazine, has pulled a parody of the Betty and Veronica comic strip from its website, after lawyers from Archie Comics threatened to sue the magazine for copyright infringement...
Lawyers for Archie Comics claimed in a letter sent to the magazine last week that the Demon's use of the characters Betty and Veronica infringes on various copyright and trademark laws and has no protection under the First Amendment right to free speech or fair use laws...
...Federal fair use laws protect from copyright infringement suits all works of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship or research. Judges have normally given broad license to parodies...
...will yearn for Robin Williams' giddy goofing in Aladdin. And the narrative alertness of Toy Story 2. As James Newton Howard's nonstop score pushes us to an emotional involvement, we hope in vain that Barney will pop out from behind a rock. Alas, someone else holds the copyright...
...auto industry were under pressure during the '70s from low-cost imports, their first instinct was not to change their outmoded manufacturing plants but to beseech the courts to bar the outlanders. The record industry has taken a similar tack, charging the purveyors of digital music with violating copyright law and Fair Use agreements. But even favorable rulings like the one the Record Industry Association of America won in district court against popular music website MP3.com provide only temporary respite. Sooner or later, the Darwinian economics of new technologies force businesses to adapt...