News Appeals Panel Rules Against Trek Seuss Parody Book

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A new news article has been published at TrekToday:

Oh, The Places You’ll Boldly Go!, a “mash-up” of Star Trek and Dr. Seuss is not a parody and therefore is not...

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[JonnyQuest037]

I hope Glenn and Ty appeal. It's pretty clearly a parody of both Trek and Seuss. And a clever one, at that.

 

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A new news article has been published at TrekToday:

Oh, The Places You’ll Boldly Go!, a “mash-up” of Star Trek and Dr. Seuss is not a parody and therefore is not...

Continue reading...

 

[Tuskin38]

I hope Glenn and Ty appeal. It's pretty clearly a parody of both Trek and Seuss. And a clever one, at that.

Eh it really isn't. It way too close to be parody.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Eh it really isn't. It way too close to be parody.

Have you actually read the book? I have.

 

[Brendan Moody]

The text of the court’s decision is here, for those interested. The discussion of whether the book qualifies as fair-use parody under the definition established by American legal precedent (not the same as the colloquial definition of parody, which the book surely meets) starts at the bottom of page 12 and runs through the top of page 15.

 

[Maurice]

Good. That thing is really a bald swipe of intellectual property in two directions: both Seuss and Trek.

 

[Mudd]

The text of the court’s decision is here, for those interested. The discussion of whether the book qualifies as fair-use parody under the definition established by American legal precedent (not the same as the colloquial definition of parody, which the book surely meets) starts at the bottom of page 12 and runs through the top of page 15.

That was illuminating. Thank you!