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A picture of Mickey Mouse dressed as Superman is still a derivative work. The main difference is that the number of lawyers you anger is now doubled.
by YurgenJurgensen 4y ago
A picture of Mickey Mouse dressed as Superman is still a derivative work. The main difference is that the number of lawyers you anger is now doubled.
- schrodinger 4y agoIANAL but wouldn't the creativity involved in doing that fall under Fair Use? Although some googling says that if someone remixed two songs, they'd need copyright permission from each artist. I guess there's a spectrum between that and more of a parody, like Weird Al's Amish Paradise.
- YurgenJurgensen 4y agoFair use defences aren't automatic, and all go on a case-by-case basis. One of the major criteria is 'effect on the work's value'. Given how easy it is to find people (in this very thread, even) gleefully predicting the death of stock photo sites, it'd pretty easy for a lawyer to tear said defence apart. Weird Al gets permission for all of his music. Even if the parody defence were valid, song licensing is pretty cheap, and defending lawsuits against artists signed with major labels is expensive.