Marty Schwimmer just appeared on another episode of This Week in Law, this time to speak about parody and satire. See

http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-law/253. Prompted by the recent lawsuit brought by the State of Louisiana against

MoveOn.org regarding a parody MoveOn created of Louisiana’s tourism slogan, Marty reviews the treatment of satire and parody under trademark and copyright law. Clips are shown featuring Weird Al Yankovic, The Cat Not in the Hat, and Ford’s parody of that Cadillac commercial. n’est-ce pas?

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