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Fair use in the case of satire is not retaining the original copyright, it is referencing the copyright. It is a legal split hair, but it stands in court.
by bsenftner 5y ago
Fair use in the case of satire is not retaining the original copyright, it is referencing the copyright. It is a legal split hair, but it stands in court.
- junon 5y agoI think you misunderstand. The website in question has "Copyright (c) Amazon, Inc" in the bottom, when in fact the derived work (the site) is not created by Amazon, but by a third party. IANAL but my understanding is that this copyright notice being retained without any clarification of the owner of the derived work can be seen as endorsement, which is an infringement of copyright unless Amazon has expressly permitted such use (which is usually indicated as such, anyway). It is also clearly not satire. That would not hold up in court, and there are many instances where they have tried that angle and failed.