Wal-Mart Parody Site Censored by DMCA

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 28, 2005 @02:29AM from the always-low-opinion dept.

davidwr writes "Wal-Mart used the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to temporarily shut down a university student's parody of the Wal-Mart Foundation." The story's details are also available via BusinessWeek. From the article: "Papasian launched the Web site April 16 for an art class at Carnegie Mellon University called 'Parasitic Media.' The class teaches students about the political uses of satire in the media. He acknowledged using Wal-Mart's graphics on his Web site but said he believed he could use the images as part of a parody."

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If this parody is legal... by hal2814 · 2005-04-28 02:54 · Score: 0, Troll

...then I'm take every copyrighted song and movie I own and make a "parody" where I add a humorous cymbal crash at the end of the original work. Then I can legally distribute my "parodies" of the songs and music.