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Satire does not usually fall under libel/defamation, though, right? >For example, in Hustler Magazine v. Falwell (1988), Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, wr
by hoppyhoppy2 5y ago
Satire does not usually fall under libel/defamation, though, right?
>For example, in Hustler Magazine v. Falwell (1988), Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, writing for a unanimous court, stated that a parody depicting the Reverend Jerry Falwell as a drunken, incestuous son could not be defamation since it was an obvious parody, not intended as a statement of fact. To find otherwise, the Court said, was to endanger First Amendment protection for every artist, political cartoonist, and comedian who used satire to criticize public figures.
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1015/satire https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1015/satire
- dogma1138 5y agoDepends on the legal system in question and the intent and usage. The US system isn’t the only one on the planet you know, the UK still has political cartoonists despite a very different definition for what defamation is which the example above can fall under.