Liberal Party of Canada Sues Satire Website

Geekboy writes "Arguing proprietary interests, the Liberal Party of Canada has set out to force the closing (article mirrored in case the site closes) of a satire web site that takes aim at the new unelected Canadian Prime Minister, Paul Martin. The site in question is paulmartintime.ca, which is a satire of paulmartintimes.ca, but this opens a whole can of worms in regards to copyright and fair use of web content, and it involves the controlling party of Canada. Clearly there are mixed messages when one site mimics another, but where does one draw the line when it involves political satire and accountability?"

Comments

Re:unelected?

[Drakin]

Nope. He's elected by the liberal party, as thier leader (which, in a way is where the whole "unelected" bit comes into play, he supposidly used unfair practices to gain control of the party and influence the vote see Here on the PaulMartinTime.ca website for thier version of it)

He's the elected leader of the party.

Rundown on Canada's government process, for those interested

(Some of my details may be wrong, been a while since I looked in depth to it)