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Canadian Liberal Candidate Illiberal When It Comes To Parodists

There’s a tempest brewing inwards Canada. learns (via boingboing) that the writers of PaulMartinTime.ca, a site parodying Paul Martin, the Canadian Liberal prime number ministerial candidate, accept been threatened amongst legal activeness past times the webmaster of paulmartintimes.ca. The people behind the official site, spell acknowledging the parodists’ complimentary spoken communication rights, accept said that the parodists accept gone likewise far because, inwards basing the blueprint of their site on the official site, they accept appropriated Paul Martin’s copyright-protected fine art work, graphics together with the way sheet. They accept told PaulMartinTime.ca that its writers are complimentary to limited their opinions but this liberty does non stretch to the correct to invade other peoples’ belongings rights. The parodists were told to brand the necessary changes past times 5pm on 24 Dec or confront legal action.

notes that the appearance of the 2 sites is really similar, but the parody would non operate nearly every bit good if they weren’t. He thinks that complimentary spoken communication volition sometimes justify encroaching on the belongings rights of others. It’s non simply of import to acquire the content of the message across, but also to select it to the public’s attention. This may live on achieved to a greater extent than effectively past times a parody of the object of the parody’s style, fifty-fifty if this agency allowing the parodist to re-create copyright-protected code that lies behind the way a website looks.

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