Does anybody know a way to convince doggies to like, or at least tolerate, wearing shoes?

[conuly]

OMG I AM DESPERATE HERE. IT IS WAY TOO COLD FOR THEM TO GO OUT WITH UNPROTECTED FEET, AND THERE IS SALT AND ALL.

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Comments

[silailo]

I didn’t know that about our copyright laws. Sometimes my country really disappoints me. Actually...it’s been disappointing me constantly for the last several years.

[conuly]

Yes, under any rational system of copyright laws Batman, for example, would be in the public domain.

[jesse_the_k]

Although the article mis-steps when discussing transformative works. "Remix" is parody, exempted from copyright -- more details here:
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Fair_Use

[redbird]

The problem with "fair use" is that there's no objective definition of what counts as fair use, so the person being sued for infringement would have to convince the court that this specific parody qualified as fair use. (I am not a lawyer, nor anything like an expert on this; suffice to say that it's complicated.)