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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Under US copyright law, in certain cases parody qualifies as "fair use" and is thus non-infringing. I don't think that this is the case under copyright law in the UK.
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Perhaps that's why Weird Al Yankovic always goes to the trouble of obtaining permission to parody an artist's work - he doesn't have to in order to release a song over here, but he wouldn't be able to release it in the UK.
Or else he's just a decent guy.