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> Another weird carve-out for copyright law in the US: parody. Honestly, I don't know if other jurisdictions allow parody in the same protected manner. Germany
by iggldiggl 2y ago
> Another weird carve-out for copyright law in the US: parody. Honestly, I don't know if other jurisdictions allow parody in the same protected manner.
Germany: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__51a.html https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__51a.html (Though this explicit carve-out is a recent development, though generally speaking parodies were allowed even under the previous version of the law.)
- throwaway2037 2y agoYour reference (link) is very impressive. Thank you to share. Honestly, I would struggle to provide the equivalent for US federal law (or court ruling). Are you a lawyer in DACH/Germany? How did you know to find this web page?
- iggldiggl 2y ago> Are you a lawyer in DACH/Germany? Nope :-), just a normal citizen, but sometimes I am curious enough to look up a law, plus sometimes I need to refer to/look up some law in my day job as a civil engineer, too. When you need to do that, it's not too hard to stumble upon the existence of that page through some web searches, plus the German Wikipedia often links to that page, too (as well as to some alternative platforms run by private entities, which sometimes provide some added value, e.g. buzer.de provides change history since 2006, too, other pages link relevant court decisions, etc. etc. – but gesetze-im-internet.de is the official page run by the federal government itself).