Posted by Eugene Volokh: Parody and Copyright: I'm delighted that [1]Bill Patry, one of the leading copyright scholars in the nation -- and the author of a treatise on fair use -- has started [2]The Patry Copyright Blog, which I'm sure will become a great source of news and opinion for people interested in copyright. The [3]inaugural substantive post is particularly interesting -- it's about parody, copyright, the political valence of parodies, and "Yiddish with Dick and Jane" (which Bill didn't much care for).
I don't think I entirely agree with Bill's analysis; in particular, I think the "compelled speech" argument for letting authors block copying is mistaken, for reasons I discussed [4]at pp. 727-732 (PDF pages 31-36) of this article. But I still highly recommend the post. References 1. file://localhost/var/www/powerblogs/volokh/posts/1114794812.html 2. http://williampatry.blogspot.com/ 3. http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2005/04/parody-political-correctness-and-first.html 4. http://www1.law.ucla.edu/~volokh/speechip.pdf _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://highsorcery.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
