Celebrities that can't take a joke

[Dis]

I expect more of Carol Burnett. She's a bit before my time, so I really didn't get the Family Guy reference that much. But how dare anyone challenge the comedy of Family Guy!

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyid=2007-03-17T010507Z_01_N16246040_RTRUKOC_0_US-BURNETT.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0316072carolburnett1.html

you can see the video in the second link.

Thoughts? Is there any merit to this case? Can we not parody anything anymore?

[ZEE]

to Family Guy and FOX for taking a stand

[Tuberski]

She seems to have a slight case to me. That was definitely the theme song with a couple of notes changed.

Using the cleaning lady character may be a copyright infringement as well, if it's copyrighted.

ACK!

[Straybow]

As a celebrity, she can't complain about being parodied. But this seems like a borderline case.

[Whoha]

Does fair use cover ~5 seconds of the theme song? even if it is short?

[Nubclear]

I believe fair use covers parody.

[LordShiva]

WhoTF is Carol Burnett?

[Nubclear]

urmom lol

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Tacc
I believe fair use covers parody.

Satire, not parody.

[Sirotnikov]

same

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Tacc
I believe fair use covers parody.

Bzzt. What che said. The 1st Amendment covers parody, though only political parody is royalty-free.

[Sirotnikov]

Kuci, dear, you have to stop using BZZZT and WRONG!!!! all the time, to stop looking like a college aged MTV audience type.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


Satire, not parody.

You are a bad person.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov
Kuci, dear, you have to stop using BZZZT and WRONG!!!! all the time, to stop looking like a college aged MTV audience type.

I am college aged, though I don't watch MTV

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Tacc

You are a bad person.

So everyone tells me.