What's the term for when parody surpasses the material it parodies?
The site was mainly used to store parody and satire material, including depictions of Cruise and Holmes in straight jackets, as well as a video showing Cruise shooting lightning at Oprah Winfrey.
Vince Cable announced late in 2012 that there was a possibility this could happen, and the IPO has now come up with drafting of amendments to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, which would specifically protect fair usage of other artists' material in parody – whether that be "weapon parody" – parody used to make a point – or "target parody" often directed at the original artist.
All this, though, pertains to parodies where original material has been copied but altered for parodic purposes: Downfall videos, for example, or one of the hundreds of versions of Adele's Rolling in the Deep marked as "parody" on YouTube.
Mr. Fisher, whose career has taken him from operatic training and cantorial singing to the stage as Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables," works in English, Yiddish and Hebrew in a display of big voice and big sentiment that recycles the Broadway songs, operatic parodies and liturgical material used in New York only last year in his one-man show "Never on Friday" at the Jewish Repertory Theater.
It was also something of a necessity, until last Wednesday when the law changed to allow the use of copyright material for parody.
His book is evidence that there is more to the people who dream up slogans like "the people, not the powerful" than great raw material for parody.
The complaint was clearly flawed, Michaud and his lawyer agreed: It disputed Channel Awesome's right to use short clips of Studio Ghibli animation in a review of a film, something generally regarded as fair use — an important exception to copyright law that lets people excerpt protected material for parody, commentary or criticism.
The parody NSA site's material comes from news reports, FedBizOpps documents, and other online sources.
In parody masses, the source material was not a single line, but an entire texture, often of a popular song.
