Picture: Burning Man exhibit at Renwick Exhibit in Washington DC, 2018
Friday, October 11, 2019
Dr. Seuss children's book gets parodied, and the fair use doctrine gets a real test
There is a case before the Ninth Circuit, where “Dr. Seuss
Enterprises” sued the authors of a parody book, “Oh the Places You’ll Boldly Go”,
created by ComicMix, a parody which maps some Dr. Seuss characters to Star Trek
characters with an interplanetary setting, with a title that seems to mock the original “Oh, the Places You’ll
Go.”
I couldn’t find the derivative book on Amazon.
The idea sounds tempting enough in the world of children’s
books, but I had always thought there wasn’t much question that derivative or
parody books are fair use. People who
“have to make a living” with writing might well consider something like this.
Electronic Frontier Foundation has an amicus brief and
explanation here.
There is a Burning Man parody of the book being read, on YouTube.
Picture: Burning Man exhibit at Renwick Exhibit in Washington DC, 2018
Picture: Burning Man exhibit at Renwick Exhibit in Washington DC, 2018
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