Item Favoring Fair Use
Parody
Explanation
If one is doing a parody of a copyrighted work, one does not need the permission of the copyright holder.
In a recent copyright fight, lawyers representing the trust of Margaret Mitchell argued that when Alice Randall wrote The Wind Done Gone, that she "appropriated characters, scene, setting, plot and even some passages straight from Gone With the Wind." (Associated Press) After a year, they dropped their suit against Randall.
