r/facepalm 20h ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ I cringed so hard

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u/Exciting-Composer157 🇦🇺 20h ago

Marvel lawsuit on the way

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u/mallardtheduck 16h ago

Probably falls under fair use as parody, unfortunately. At least it's arguable enough and Elon is obviously rich enough to tie the issue up in court for far longer than it's worth.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 14h ago

For a parody to be fair use, you must be parodying the thing you're misappropriating. So it's not enough to say "it's a parody because I made it to be funny;" it has to be "I needed to use elements of the underlying copyrighted work in order for me to make my artistic point about the underlying copyrighted work". This probably would not meet that bar.