EFF Sues Barney Producers over Spoof Sites

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday August 25, 2006 @06:28AM from the can't-we-all-just-get-along dept.

PetManimal writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the company that produces 'Barney and Friends' for harassing the creator of a Barney parody Web site. Barney producers Lyons Partnership has threatened lawsuits over the past few years against Stuart Frankel and his parody site, actions which the EFF says violates freedom of speech and fair use laws. The parody site contains doctored images of Barney, and claims the purple dinosaur is the Antichrist. From the article: 'Lyons Partnership has sent multiple cease-and-desist letters to Frankel for a Web page that includes a depiction of the fuzzy purple dinosaur as Satan. In an October letter, Lyons demands that Frankel immediately take down copyrighted images of Barney. The company threatens to take legal action or contact Frankel's Internet service provider if he doesn't comply.'"

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Re:Slashdot ALWAYS Rejects my Articles! by Kadin2048 · 2006-08-25 07:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Are you implying that the /. moderators have something against Fox News? I thought everybody on /. was fair and impartial?

I think you meant to say "fair and balanced."

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Re:Slashdot ALWAYS Rejects my Articles! by MyLongNickName · 2006-08-25 07:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Worse. He is implying Slashdot Editors check the links.

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Re:Barney's got a brand new bag by PetManimal · 2006-08-25 08:02 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Pet Manimal angry too. Link was submitted to Slashdot in morning (seen on EFF website) but Zonk human stripped it out for unknown reason. Maybe he not parent and no get joke.