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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. They deserve it. by Jason1729 · · Score: 0, Troll

    It looks like the lawsuit is totally justified. The Strawberry Shortcake comic is damaging to the trademark-holder's reputation, and the US has an enforce it or lose it trademark system.

    The follow-up strip is just so pathetically stupid that it's almost funny that the writers are such idiots.

    Jason
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  2. Home of the free by CausticWindow · · Score: 0, Troll

    Don't whine. At least you're free to litigate. Too bad if you're up against somebody with more cash than you though.

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    How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
  3. Why is "Penny Arcade" funny? by slaker · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just asking, 'cause I don't get it. I just played "try to find the joke" in that latest strip. I didn't see it. They use naughty words and invoke Godwin's Law WRT American Greetings.

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    -- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
  4. Re:Bah by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...which is what?

  5. Hacktivism anyone? by BobStikigreen · · Score: 0, Troll

    Be nice on the days leading up to mothers and fathers day someone deface their web presence to bring more attention to this issue. Or perhaps DDOS any e-commerce presence the might have as a form of non-voluntary boycott. Just some ideas.