parodists

• “The Act has no hint of an evidentiary preference for parodists over their victims, and no workable presumption for parody could take account of the fact that parody often shades into satire when society is lampooned through its creative artifacts, or that a work may contain both parodic and non parodic elements.”

  The Washington Post: MA GOP's lame ad and James Taylor's copyright: upon further analysis, it's still not "fair use"

• “The parodists 'favourite targets were inevitably anthology-pieces, sentimental classics, and the kind of poems that were regularly assigned as school-work or chosen for recitation.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'The Oxford Book of Parodies'

• “And parodists can throw light on the parodied in any number of ways, social or psychological as well as artistic.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'The Oxford Book of Parodies'

• “The finest parodists are masters of the slight stylistic distortion, the barely visible tweak.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'The Oxford Book of Parodies'

• “There were parodists of every variety, from hack humorists beyond number to virtuoso performers such as C.S. Calverley and J.K. Stephen.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'The Oxford Book of Parodies'

• “Whether or not most parodists are affectionate, they certainly tend to rejoice in the styles they are making fun of.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'The Oxford Book of Parodies'

• “Exposing the limitations of other writers is not, in itself, a particularly noble task, and if that were the principal benefit which parodists had to offer their trade would surely be regarded as a fairly dismal one.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'The Oxford Book of Parodies'

• “It should be said that the Anglo-Saxons seem to offer more to parodists than Harry Potter; strong parodies depend on strong originals.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Sincerest Form of Ridicule

• “The First Amendment, of course, has long protected a wide swath of parodists -- from political cartoonists to playwrights to even pornographers See: Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, 1988.”

  The Washington Post: The Riff: 'SOUTH PARK' is sued over video -- but what-what does this mean for parody?

• “As parodists, they are excruciating at least as often as they are on the money.”

  Frankie Thomas: A Eulogy for "Flight of the Conchords" -- The Best Porn on TV

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