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I am not a lawyer, but if somewhere it says "a work of parody", that should suffice for fair use. That said, nothing stopping VW from raking them over the coal
by LinuxBender 8y ago
I am not a lawyer, but if somewhere it says "a work of parody", that should suffice for fair use. That said, nothing stopping VW from raking them over the coals. Github would probably just take the repo or account down if it came to that.
- lixtra 8y agoI would expect vw to try this as low as possible. If they went to court they would learn about the Streisand effect.
- macintux 8y agoWell, their woes can't possibly be publicized any more widely, and 99.999% of the people who would read the news about such a lawsuit would have no use of the software, so I'm not sure the Streisand effect has any real meaning here.
- sampo 8y agoEurope tends to have less freedom for parodies than the US.
- LinuxBender 8y agoGood point.
- TomMarius 8y agoThis is OK though. (IANAL, but I've seen cases like this)
- hangonhn 8y agoIt doesn't even need to say it. Basically as long as the judge finds it funny and agrees it's satire, you're ok: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/828/1482/368753/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/828...