Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:16:31 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Non-PC Laughs Message-ID: <20000804141631.A28513@pir.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0008041249280.381-100000@armani.yourfit.com>; from behanna@zbzoom.net on Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:50:15PM -0400 References: <20000804114719.A25218@pir.net> <Pine.WNT.4.21.0008041249280.381-100000@armani.yourfit.com>
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Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> probably said: > On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > > On another front, it also breaks the copyright agreement Kirk McK. has > > on the image of the beastie. Not a good idea. > > Well, no, it doesn't. Parody is protected speech. That doesn't look like parody to me, it looks like the abuse of a copyrighted image. It's not parodying the beastie, it's using it in a given situation. Kirk specificly lists this type of abuse in his copyright page; http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/mainpage/copyright.html > Whether or not it tickles your funnybone is another (personal) > matter. and an irrelevant one. Oh, and please fix your mail program so it either uses the To: or the reply-to: and not both. Your reply to me went to the list twice. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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