Posts by Jack Malvern

Rude Tintin pulls out

satire clause

Torben Mogensen says:

"If I recall copyright law correctly, you can use the names and likeness of copyrighted characters for purposes of parody and satire."

UK copyright law, and I'm fairly sure EU law, contains no get-out on the basis of parody or satire. This is, however, true of American copyright law.

Batman logo manifests in tomato

Sold for £2.20...

... to a chap called "autorev". He seems to have been willing to pay an additional £3 for postage. This would seem to be an auction record for a revelation of Batman in a fruit.

Milton Keynes: world centre of porn and sex

Re: How it works

Thanks for the explanation, Paul. One thing, though. There are no penguins in the Arctic, and no Eskimos in the Antarctic. That might explain why Eskimos were searching for them, I suppose.