[cc-community] [Clipart] In the interim...

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Wed May 9 14:07:11 EDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 11:27 -0500, Terry Hancock wrote:
> Generally, you are on safer ground spoofing people with strongly
> developed public personas. I don't know the actual reasoning or exactly
> how the line is drawn between "public figures" and "ordinary people",
> but I think the argument is basically that these are people who've
> entered "public life" so they are subject to public criticism (or
> praise). You'll see lots of examples of political cartoons involving
> political leaders and/or entertainers. This is pretty much all
> "protected speech" AFAIK.

Only very tangentially related, but I found it funny that Andy Griffith
failed in a suit against a politician who had changed his name to Andy
Griffith and said things like "they never did that in Mayberry", but
there was deemed to be no confusion about the famous Andy endorsing the
new Andy, and 
        
        federal dilution law expressly exempts "[n]oncommercial use[s],"
        and use in a political campaign should be considered
        noncommercial

So there you have "what does NC mean" outside the CC NC context. :-)

See
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_05_06-2007_05_12.shtml#1178665992

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