Better Copyright Through Fair Use and Ponies

Balinares writes "With even harmless parody sites like Peanutweeter now getting shut down by twitchy lawyers in the name of brand dilution concerns, the situation with fair use has become bleak. Yet some companies are learning at last. Variery reports that when parodies of their latest production started popping up online, Hasbro not only allowed it to happen, but started contributing some of their own. Now their My Little Pony reboot has gained a huge following and reached cult status. Fair use does make everything better. That, or it's the ponies."

Comments

4chan

[m2vq]

Like the article states, Hasbro makes more money with the merchandise than the actual show now, so that's why they dont care. And the people posting those ponies are really in pain in the ass. On the forums I visit there's only a few of them, but they're all some 4chan idiots who also like to watch anime and post sad threads about their lost teenage years. Then they go on and spam ponies. What better way to go destroy brand name than annoy tons of people with it, even if it's only done by some idiots thinking it's fun.

Oh god.

[L1B3R4710N]

I never thought I'd have to read about My Little Pony here. Today is a sad day for me.

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[jtrainor]

I, for one, hope none of the more... rabid MLP fans show up here. They were run off of Somethingawful for being really fucking creepy, a first for a non-Japanese show.