parody

Corporate logos -- do they suffer as we do?

December 22, 2008 16:51

The IPKat had a good chuckle, and a good think too, concerning the corporate logo parodies published in Corporate Pundit and drawn to his attention last week by his friend Tomasz Rychlicki. There are several different schools of thought relating to parody of this nature. One is that it is unfair...

Parody Defence Not Available according to BC Court

Howard Knopf
December 13, 2008 20:51

The Tyee reports on a copyright case involving alleged infringement of a Canwest newspaper in which the defendant pleaded that the material was a "parody." This defense was struck out at a very early stage by a BC Supreme Court Master in this ruling that parody was not available as a "fair use"...

Debating Parody Protection in Canada

Michael Geist
December 13, 2008 16:17

Howard Knopf has a pair of interesting posts (1, 2) on the absence of explicit legal protection for parody under Canadian copyright law in light of a recent case involving Canwest (case here, report on the case here).

More on Satire and Parody and the Need for Legislation in Canada

Howard Knopf
December 13, 2008 04:04

Prof. D’Agostino has posted a thoughtful comment, with which I respectfully disagree, on my posting from yesterday on the BC parody case. It merits a sufficiently lengthy reply to require a new entry. I think that Prof. D’Agostino and I agree that parody (she doesn't discuss satire) should be pa...

Taste we can believe in

Peter Black
October 27, 2008 10:29

Over at Madisonian.net, Ann Bartow highlights a trade mark parody we can believe in:Over at Madisonian.net, Ann Bartow highlights a trade mark parody we can believe in: