{"id":4945,"date":"2010-11-16T17:10:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T01:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=4945"},"modified":"2010-11-16T17:10:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T01:10:43","slug":"south-park-is-sued-for-what-what-in-the-butt-parody-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2010\/11\/16\/south-park-is-sued-for-what-what-in-the-butt-parody-video\/","title":{"rendered":"South Park is sued for &#8220;What, What In The Butt&#8221; Parody Video."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took more than two years for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/blogs\/thr-esq\/south-park-sued-stealing-youtube-45393\" target=\"_blank\">Brownmark Films to take South Park creators, Comedy Central and Viacom to court<\/a> over a video parody that was done back in April 2008. Apparently the 30-something million views on YouTube and Billions of Theoretical Internet Dollars are not enough for Sam &#8220;Samwell&#8221; Norman and Brownmark Films.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sp_1204_08_v9\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sp_1204_08_v9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/blogs\/thr-esq\/south-park-sued-stealing-youtube-45393\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;&#8230;. &#8220;Courts have consistently recognized that parody enjoys broad protections under the First Amendment and the Copyright Act&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogcritics.org\/video\/article\/brownmark-films-qa-with-the-creators\/\" target=\"_blank\">old Q&amp;A<\/a> with the founders of Brownmark&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is Parody?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/parody\" target=\"_blank\">Dictionary.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parody\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publaw.com\/parody.html\" target=\"_blank\">Parody: Fair Use or Copyright Infringement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Parodies in The United States Copyright Law &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_copyright_law#Parodies\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2008\/03\/30\/south-park-season-12-episode-4-canada-on-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\">South Park: Season 12 Episode 4 &#8211; &#8220;Canada On Strike&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>South Park: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southparkstudios.com\/clips\/165193\/what-what-in-the-butt\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;What, What In The Butt&#8221; video parody featuring Butters<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Samwell: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fbGkxcY7YFU\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;What What (In the Butt)&#8221; Original Video on YouTube<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s note:<br \/>\nWe believe that Parody is an art form and a protected from of free speech and expressions. Most of us had never heard of Samwell&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fbGkxcY7YFU\" target=\"_blank\">What What (In the Butt)<\/a>&#8221; video until it was parodied by South Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took more than two years for Brownmark Films to take South Park creators, Comedy Central and Viacom to court over a video parody that was done back in April 2008. Apparently the 30-something million views on YouTube and Billions of Theoretical Internet Dollars are not enough for Sam &#8220;Samwell&#8221; Norman and Brownmark Films. From &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2010\/11\/16\/south-park-is-sued-for-what-what-in-the-butt-parody-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;South Park is sued for &#8220;What, What In The Butt&#8221; Parody Video.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[579,723,724,1030,1455,1990,2009,2094,942,2265,2511,2765,936,3028,3048,3119],"class_list":["post-4945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-butters","tag-comedy","tag-comedy-central","tag-entertainment","tag-humor","tag-matt-stone","tag-media","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-parody","tag-resources","tag-south-park","tag-tech","tag-trey-parker","tag-tv","tag-viacom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1hL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}