Cof L49 "Contracts flee thee yet"

[Michael Bailey]

>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> p. 83 Yoyodyne, Yoyodyne,
>>         Contracts flee thee yet.
>>         DOD has shafted thee,
>>         Out of spite, I'll bet.
>

these remind me of the MAD Magazine song parodies

I can easily visualize a cartoon version of this book in the style of
Mort Drucker

in fact it was MAD who established the legal precedent for song
parodies in 1961:

The magazine has been involved in various legal actions over the
decades, some of which have reached the United States Supreme Court.
The most far-reaching was Irving Berlin et al. v. E.C. Publications,
Inc.. In 1961, a group of music publishers representing songwriters
such as Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers and Cole Porter filed a $25
million lawsuit against Mad for copyright infringement following "Sing
Along With Mad," a collection of parody lyrics "sung to the tune of"
many popular songs. The publishing group hoped to establish a legal
precedent that only a song's composers retained the right to parody
that song. The U.S. District Court ruled largely in favor of Mad in
1963, affirming its right to print 23 of the 25 song parodies under
dispute. An exception was found in the cases of two parodies, "Always"
(sung to the tune of "Always") and "There's No Business Like No
Business" (sung to the tune of "There's No Business Like Show
Business"). Relying on the same verbal hooks ("always" and
"business"), these were found to be overly similar to the originals.
The music publishers appealed the ruling, but the U.S. Court of
Appeals not only upheld the pro-Mad decision in regard to the 23
songs, it stripped the publishers of their limited victory regarding
the remaining two songs. The publishers again appealed, but the
Supreme Court refused to hear it, thus allowing the decision to
stand.[22][23]
(Wikipedia)




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