Comment on Congressman Gaetz: "Robots should not be subject to Free Speech" (I'm Not a Robot)
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 months agoWut?
Parody is by definition imitation, frequently poorly, but usually excessively over-dramatic. It doesn’t have to be a commentary on the original.
Satire has nothing to do with imitation at all, and is instead sarcastic or facetious for the purpose of drawing attention to things.
FireTower@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Webster offers a lay definition not a legal definition. Often in law words are interpreted to have meanings different than they normally would. For example a company would be considered to be a person for the purposes of a law saying “No person shall dump oil in the river”.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Cornell law also disagrees
While it is common that yes, parodies are indeed social commentary, this is far from necessary for something to be a parody (and the matter only really comes into play considering if the original work’s use falls under fair use or not.