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• Their stupid letter
• C|Net: Scientologists in trademark disputes
• Berliner Zeitung: Compuserve zensiert Kritik an Scientology
• How Scientology censors its own members
• German case law about copyright v. parody:
• Nichtraucher-Initiative München (NIM) gegen Philip Morris, BGH Urteil vom 17.4.1984, Az: VI ZR 246/82 (parodies of cigarette ads by anti-smoking group, also known as the Mordoro decision), Fundstellen: BGHZ 91, 117; NJW 1984, 1956; GRUR 1984, 684
• Bar jeder Vernumft, (Musical "Kellnerinnen" v. Musical "Sekretärinnen"), KG Berlin, Urteil vom 2.10.1998, Az: 5 O 5391/98 (ad for musical spoofs ad of another musical)
• Virtuelles urinierem im Internet: OLG Köln, Urteil vom 10.03.2000, Az: 6 U 152/99
• US case law about copyright v. parody:
• Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music (parody of "pretty woman" song)
• Leibovitz v. Paramount (parody of Demi Moore Vanity Fair cover)
• Girls Scouts v. Personality Posters Manufacturing Co. (picture of obviously pregnant girl dressed in Girl Scout uniform and bearing the motto "Be Prepared")
• Hormel v. Henson (new Muppet character with the name "Spa'am")
• Mattel v. MCA: 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the song "Barbie Girl" of the danish band "Aqua" neither infringed nor diluted the Barbie trademark.
• Report of lower court decision
• National Law Journal: MCA Records Wins Barbie Battle
• law.com commentary: The Barbie War
• Mattel v. Walking Mountain Productions: 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision of Judge Ronald Lew to deny Mattel's request to bar photographic artist Tom Forsythe from using the Barbie doll in his photographs (also here) and from selling the photos (some of which depict the doll wrapped in tortillas or posed in sexual positions) as postcards. Decided around December 2003. Mattel had sued Forsythe in August 1999 for copyright and trademark infringement.
• Mattel v. Susanne Pitt: Mattel lost its lawsuit against British artist Susanne Pitt, who created and sold "Dungeon Dolls" with Superstar Barbie heads attached to voluptuous doll bodies dressed in S&M gear. (law.com article, Decision No. 01 Civ. 1864 (LTS))
• Jordache Enterprises v. Hogg Wyld, Ltd, 828 F.2d 1482, 1490 n. 7 (10th Cir. 1987), about "Lardashe" jeans for larger women as a parody of Jordache jeans. Click here for an article discussing the case.
• Bally Total Fitness Holding Corporation v. Andrew S. Faber, 29 F. Supp. 2d 1161, 1998 WL 897335 (C.D. Cal. Dec. 21, 1998), dismissing a lawsuit against a Bally sucks logo and website. The court: The explosion of the Internet is not without its growing pains. It is an efficient means for business to disseminate information, but it also affords critics of those businesses an equally efficient means of disseminating critical commentary.
• MasterCard v. Nader 2000 Primary Committee Inc., court refusing to grant TRO to MasterCard against Ralph Nader's parody of the "Priceless" ad campaign for trademark and copyright violation, because the ad was indeed a parody of the MasterCard campaign.
• SUNTRUST BANK v. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, refusing to enjoin publication of the book The Wind Done Gone because it is a parody of Gone with the Wind
• New York Stock Exchange v. New York-New York Hotel, 99-9276, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that a "New York $lot Exchange" sign in Las Vegas does not infringe upon the exchange's marks under the Lanham Act
• Tommy Hilfiger Licensing Inc. v. Nature Labs LLC, 99 Civ. 10713: A perfume for dogs (Timmy Holedigger) that parodies Tommy Hilfiger does not infringe on the fashion designer and cologne maker's trademark
• Jerry Fallwell parody site Jerryfalwell.com successful against Jerry Fallwell - read the WIPO decision
• Visit EnronownstheGOP.com, threatened by the Republican Party of Texas
• Parody ads by Adbusters
• Political parody: Travel in exotic style with in Lufthansa Deportation Class.
• Cartoonist Kieron Dwyer sued by Starbucks for "consumer whore" parody of their "mermaid" logo
• Anti-nuclear energy campaign .Ausgestrahlt threatened by ad agency Jung von Matt for parody of RWE ad

From Andreas Heldal-Lund:

Visit also his scientology parody book covers!

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From Neil Woods:

 

Listen to Heber not knowing his residential address (first file, at 12:00)
Listen to MP3 song Heber loves his mother
 

 

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From Curtis Anderson:

From Miguelito:

"Just as Scientology now brings total freedom,
it must also have total power and authority for bringing total discipline.
If not it will not survive."
(HCO Policy Letter, January 5, 1968)

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From Barb:

Make money
Make more money
Make others produce so as to make money
L. Ron Hubbard, HCOPL 9.3.1972

(Ideas from a picture by Hannes Margreiter (!), "Max" and me)

Original photograph © Rex Features Ltd (UK)

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From Entertainment Weekly:

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