South Park Prevails in Copyright Infringement Case Thanks to the “Fair Use” Doctrine (The IP Law Blog)
By David Muradyan
“South Park” is an animated sitcom that airs on Comedy Central, and centers on
the happenings of four foul-mouthed fourth graders in a small mountain town in
Colorado. As the District Court in _Brownmark Films, LLC v. Comedy Partners_
stated, in the nearly 15 years that South Park has been on the air, “the four
central characters have, amongst other adventures, battled space aliens,
hunted Osama Bin Ladin in the wake of 9/11 ala Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny, and
have, more recently, resolved the nation’s economic woes by charging the
nation’s consumer debts on one of the character’s credit card.” _Brownmark
Films, LLC, v. Comedy Partners_, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72684 (E.D. Wis. July
6, 2011) (“_Brownmark_”).
The entities involved in the production of South Park found themselves in the
middle of a copyright infringement suit because of a South Park episode
entitled “Canada on Strike,” which allegedly infringed on Plaintiff Brownmark
Films, LLC’s (“Plaintiff” or “Brownmark”) copyright in WWITB (defined below).
In that episode, the naive “Butters Stotch” (one of the South Park characters)
is coaxed by his fellow classmates to record an internet video in the hopes of
making money on …
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