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Penny Arcade vs. American Greetings Revisited

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the your-right-to-parody-is-void dept.

Jojo writes "After American Greetings got some lawyers to bring down a Penny Arcade strip (M i r r o r) last week, PA is now striking back.. IANAL, but I fear their latest strip might get them into real trouble this time." As always, PA cracks me up, but these are scary events. The banned strip is clearly a work of parody, which I believe is still legal in this country, unless that too changed recently.

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  1. Re:Opposite feeling by Steveftoth · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Maybe because "Pizza the Hut" is not the the same as "Pizza Hut"??? Maybe also because Mel Brooks got the permission of Pepsi before making the movie? Unlike Penny Arcade, who think that they can just go ahead and make a comic with anything in it without worrying about copyright or trademark infringment, A big movie studio has lawyers who's job it is to clear these things up.

  2. Re:Horrible Boycott Idea by Guppy06 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    That, or she'd be happy that you're doing something vaguely meaningful in your life.