Tags: Fair Use

With all the new technology arising on the Internet, mod­ern-day pirates are less mindful of etiquette than their historical counterparts like Bartholomew Roberts and John Gow, who wrote codes of conduct their mates had to abide.

At the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund, we refer to such chilling of free speech as “market censorship.” We consulted with Lombardo and his lawyer, and reviewed the materials involved, to consider whether the play constituted a fair use of Seuss's Grinch.

Parody Is No Laughing Matter: The Fair Use of Copyright Material By Ralph Sevush [Originally published in The Dramatist Newsletter, Oct/Nov 1997]