Justin’s Cease and Desist
Ex-coworker Justin received a hilarious cease and desist letter based on his parody of an ex-gay movement billboard. Great explanation of the failings of wikipedia as a source of legal advice:
You appear to believe that the stolen image is exempt from federal intellectual property laws as a ‘parody’ due to ‘fair use.’ Unfortunately, the intricacies of federal law cannot adequately be covered on ‘Wikipedia’ due to the variety of facts addressed by courts in numerous cases.
March 2nd, 2006 at 5:42 pm
You know, I really haven’t brought enough attention to that fact that the law firm actually mentioned “Wikipedia” in the letter. Talk about Oh well. In the other cease-and-desist letter they sent out, they called it a dictionary. Heh.