I know this isn’t really news on many levels, but it is a great case study for showing how this isn’t really about copyright. It’s about who’s allowed to exploit something, and who’s considered too little to be a threat to exploiting that thing.
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True, but that’s missing the principle for the example.
As you said, Disney and the other culture megacorps do go after parody/fair use situations on the regular, and usually win because they have more money.
And while it looks like parody/fair use to us non-lawyers, I suspect it was a letter from New Order’s lawyers that made them decide the publicity from a court challenge may not help their chances of extending copyright yet again when the Mouse gets old enough.
So again, this has nothing to do with the purposes of copyright and everything to do with making everything with the way they want it to.
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Is that Penelope or Perdita?
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Sadly, I don’t recognize on sight…especially after being “Unknown Pleasured” but the first time I see Unknown Hedgehog on the blog was after Penelope’s passing.
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