RE: Supreme Court on Parody

From: Seth Greenstein <sethg[_at_]access1.digex.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 20:17:17 -0500 (EST)


But does the remand square with the analysis? If a work is really a parody, it is a transformed work that cannot substitute for the original. Even if it did substitute, or eviscerate the market, for the original, the Court said it would be fair use. Why should the fourth factor matter? Example: No one is going to purchase Weird Al Yankovic as a substitute for Michael Jackson. But if no one wants to buy a Michael Jackson record after hearing Al sing, that's still fair use. What is left in between for the remand?

Seth Greenstein
<sethg[_at_]access1.digex.net> Received on Sat Mar 12 1994 - 01:22:13 GMT

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