al gore/harry potter buttons - last call

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 3249

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a... wrote:
> 
> > The buttons have arrived! I am placing a jpg of the file in one 
of the
> > group folders over at egroups for anyone who wants to see it. 
They say
> > Put Wizardry Back In The White House & have a photo of Al & a pic 
of
> > harry from the front of the US GOF.
> 
> Not to be a stick-in-the-mud, but has JKR approved the use of the 
name Harry
> Potter and/or the picture for this?

I wrote a really long response to this explaining how, as a matter of 
copyright & trademark law, especially under the recent Ralph Nader v. 
Mastercard decision in the US, this is a parody and thus protected by 
first amendment law, but my computer seems to have refused to send it 
properly, and I don't want to write the whole thing again and I am 
sure most of you would've found it boring, so I'll just say that 
since it's protected by parody, no permission was needed. 

Whew. long sentence. And if this is the summary, you can guess how 
long the original post was!