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Originally posted by mardigras
Non-commercial parody clearly falls under fair use, but commercial sites can be shut down depending on numerous criteria including "dilution of trademark value".
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In the 1993 Supreme Court case, Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, 510 U.S. 569 (1994), the Court held that Pretty Woman, 2 Live Crew's parody of Roy Orbison's rock ballad Oh, Pretty Woman, was protected under the fair use exception to the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. Section 107.