http://tags.library.upenn.edu/sheribr/fair_use_blog+decherney PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/36074 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/36074 <p>This blog on fair use, written by law professor Peter Friedman, covers many elements of fair use, including satire and parody. This page deals specifically with blog entries covering satire and fair use, including an excerpt from Andrew S. Long's <em>"</em>Mashed Up Videos and Broken Down Copyright," written for the <em>Oklahoma Law Review.</em> Friedman discusses how parody has more extensive coverage than satire under fair use, including the recent example of Little Brown's <em>Good Night, Moon</em>. Similarly to Dr. Juice's satire on <em>The Cat and the Hat</em> and the O.J. Simpson murder trial, this book will probably not be defensable under fair use due to its satiric rather than parodic nature.</p> <p>Long's article includes a section on the effect os the parody-satire distinction, which discusses the confusion similar to Bridy's article about hybrids of satire and parody. Long even suggests that "this seemingly arbitrary distinction allows judges to find parody when it suits the results the wish to achieve." Hardly a promotion of progess that the Copyright Act is supposed to protect. Long also argues that the distinction between satire and parody ignores that satire must also transform the original work, which adds new, transformative meaning.</p>