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Old 06-11-2005, 03:05 PM  
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Originally Posted by chaze
Trying to get opinions, my lawyer says yes but she says yes about everything.

I am thinking as long as it's not saying the name of the copyright image then it should be fine. makes since

Assuming is a pay site as well.
If it was a parody, it would be okay. However, since you're doing it to make money, it probably might not fall under the classification of parody under the exceptions carved out under US copyright law.

Even 'fan art' is not legal (although copyright owners rarely go after these cuz most are noncommercial in nature) since they fall under the DERIVATIVE WORKS section of the copyright law.

See: http://www.schrag.info/tushnet/law/fanficarticle.html
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