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If copyright owners start using this law to sue everyone they see fit, the law will last 12 months tops IMHO or it will destroy both parody and satire as we know it in the UK.


Do not despair. Parody and satire are safe in this fair land for as long as we have the great British public around to angrily misunderstand everything.


This law does literally the opposite of what you are talking about.


Then, I got this entire thing wrong, which is a good thing.


We were living in your nightmare future world already and you didn't even notice. Just think of all the parody we've been missing up until now.


Read article, then type!




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