I love The Charming Charlie blog for two reasons – the first Charlie Brown and Morrissey lyrics? Genius!
The second is more appropriate to the copyleft issues I usually cover here: they’ve gotten legals from Universal in 2013, and have defended it through lawyering up and enforcing fair use and the man himself approving of the blog, I noticed they subtly slipped Smiths quotes in the letters themselves! Nice 😉
Shame they had to go that far though, for what is a obviously transformative ‘mashup’ and parody and thus covered by fair use, and as the letter points out, part of that case law is Lenz vs Universal, so they should be aware of it!
Oh well, it seemed to have ended well!
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