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Originally Posted by khalleron
Parodies are legal under American copyright law.
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Parodies, by definition, put enough distance between the source material that no reasonable person would confuse the two even if the source is clearly recognizable in the new work.
There is a nice definition here:
http://class.georgiasouthern.edu/wri...avis/body.html
Parody is:
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A new, copyrightable work based on a previously copyrighted work
to such an extent that the previous work is clearly recognizable
but not taking more from the copyrighted work than is necessary,
that criticizes or comments on, at least in part, the subject matter or style of the previous work, and is not likely to hurt the value of the previous work.
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That last bolded clause is where the definition comes into play in court.