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Fair use actually makes a distinction between satire and parody: satire isn't protected. https://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/intellectual/roundta

Fair use actually makes a distinction between satire and parody: satire isn't protected. https://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/intellectual/roundtables/0506_outline.pdf https://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/intellect... Technically, parody is using X's IP to comment on X; satire is using X's IP to comment on something else. So if this is parody, it would plausibly fall under America's fair use test.

derekbreden 8y ago
Didn't volkswagen "fix" some emission tests in this manner?
- mabbo 8y ago
  Yeah they were fined like $15B and had people arrested and criminally charged in multiple countries. They had 'defeat devices' that detected test environments and changed how the car ran so that it would pass emissions testing.
  - pkaye 8y ago
    Did the CEO Martin Winterkorn? Looks like he got away though.
  - btian 8y ago
    That's less than a month worth of revenue. And only 2 or 3 people are in jail afaik. Only a light slap on the wrist.
    - ummonk 8y ago
      Or a year worth of profits. Hardly a slap on the wrist.
- tempestn 8y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk