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washington213 Since: Jan, 2013
#1: Dec 4th 2014 at 4:44:31 PM

I was thinking of self publishing a trilogy of books on amazon to be a parody of Twilight with some Buffy mixed in for flavor. Was gonna follow the plot more or less with a few twists and lots of humor and, well, parody/satire. And the vampires start out normal and the conflict is about then becoming diamond skinned abominations. Would I be safe from copyright infringement under parody, since it's not intended to be plagiarism?

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#2: Dec 5th 2014 at 5:29:31 AM

That's safe. Unless maybe you quote bits word for word, parody is a legal defence against copyright infringement claims.

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#3: Dec 5th 2014 at 7:34:01 AM

The answer to your basic question is "Yes." See Airplane!, Bored of the Rings, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Goodnight Dune, pretty much "Weird Al" Yankovic's entire music catalog...

edited 5th Dec '14 7:34:49 AM by Madrugada

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#4: Dec 5th 2014 at 8:22:07 AM

It might be worth remembering that with Airplane!, the studio that made it already had the rights to Zero Hour, so copyright wouldn't have come into it (it lifts dialogue and other things almost wholesale, so it might have been crossing the line a bit otherwise).

edited 5th Dec '14 8:22:46 AM by Bisected8

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#5: Dec 5th 2014 at 3:11:54 PM

...and Weird Al often asks permission from the original songwriter as a courtesy, and Pride And Prejudice is in the public domain.

But the answer is still yes.

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