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Thanks for the reply

First, if components of the parody are protected by copyright then, as much as I hate to say it, you had no right to use the components in your work.

Fair Use under copyright law allows it, as it allows snippets of published copyright work to be published here. However, in this case, it didn't even get that far. It was tossed for other reasons, like me (A Michigan resident) being sued in a NY court by a CA resident.

Second, since you have decreed that your work not be posted on FR, it seems a bit hypocritical to complain on FR about being sued for using material copyrighted by someone else in your publicly published work (even if it was for only 2 hours).

Oh, this goes (way) beyond FR. That is a point I am trying to make.

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Fair Use under copyright law allows it, as it allows snippets of published copyright work to be published here.

Ok. I'm not a lawyer and didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, so I don't pretend to understand Fair Use beyond the fact that it does protect FR.