Fwd: [Fedora-legal-list] xBill legal opinion required

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Sun Mar 1 00:11:32 CET 2009


Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Andrea Musuruane wrote:
>   
>> From: Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa...>
>> Well, the issue is that the game is clearly disparaging Microsoft and
>> its marks. I'm not sure any amount of "artwork" replacement will
>> overcome that.
>>     
>
> WTF, since when is parody illegal? It's even an exception to copyright and
> trademark law.
Tom Callaway already answered that in Fedora legal list. Note that 
simplistic ideas around parody don't really meet up to the legal 
constraints around the concept.

Rahul


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