Isn't this pretty clearly protected as a parody? The Gawker post mentions is: http://gawker.com/5084164/fake-new-york-times-declares-iraq-war-over-heres-who-did-itand someone in the comments (somewhere between 50 and 60) says they took a bunch into the Times building and most ppl really liked it and it was declared (by Times staffers, no idea how high up) to be protected by fair use.
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Fred Benenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Indeed. Forgot to include the NYTimes' reaction here: > > http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/pranksters-spoof-the-times/ > > What's great is that no one has brought up copyright infringement once. > Oops. > > > F > > > ~ ~ ~ > thoughts / http://fredbenenson.com/blog > work / http://creativecommons.org > sights / http://flickr.com/fcb > sounds / http://www.last.fm/user/mecredis > status / http://twitter.com/mecredis > > > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Rob Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Fred Benenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > I had some friends handing out papers and saw them in the hood. >> > The nytimes thinks the 1.6 million number is wrong -- they don't even >> have >> > that kind of distribution in the city. >> >> Whatever the numbers it's an impressive achievement. (Whether you >> agree with the politics of it or not.) I've seen spoof newspapers >> before (I still have one from the May Day protests in London years >> ago) but this really seems to have caught people's imagination and >> international media attention. >> >> - Rob. >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@freeculture.org >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@freeculture.org > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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