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Never enough :) My favorite:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d7/75/31/d77531ddeaf83c8375c2...

My favorite is 'old dog new trick.' I won't post a link myself because I once spent a long email thread with Larson's secretary trying, and failing, to get permission to use the cartoon in a slide deck. He has described that he thinks of the cartoons as his children and that, like children, he wants to know where they are. I respect that, though I wish he felt differently.

If used for educational purposes, it would probably fall under fair use.

Perhaps. It's about six years too late for that particular presentation, but there will always be more presentations.

Being legally okay isn't the same thing as being right.

For a similar reason, Weird Al Yankovic always gets permission before publishing his parodies even though he doesn't have to.

For what it is worth, Yankovick has done the opposite of your comment at least once.

Yankovic specifically got legal permission for his song Amish Paradise but not what was arguably "right" meaning permission from the artist Coolio who said no. Yankovic did it anyway.

Years later, they are reportedly "cool" now according to Yankovic: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1h7afc/i_am_weird_al_...

That's pretty misrepresentative of the events.

Yankovic _thought_ he had gotten permission and when he later found out Coolio hadn't been consulted he was mortified.

Not only that, but this episode also only serves to prove Yankovic's point, that it's best to get permission even if you don't legally have to.

That's fair. I'll concede on that. You're right.

From what I've read he knew he had permission from the record label, and knew he didn't have Coolio's blessing. I wasn't there, but it seems unlikely that if he immediately had turned around like "wow I didn't know" the so-called beef wouldn't have lasted years until they made nice.

From: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bp/coolio-did-not-want-w...

>Coolio said when Weird Al initially requested to remake the song, he said, "No," but later realized that, due to the fair use copyright laws, he could not stop the production.

>Coolio later reconsidered Weird Al's proposal. "I sat down, and I really thought it out," he told the students at IPR. "I was like, 'Wait a minute.' I was like, 'Coolio, who the f—k do you think you are? He did Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson didn't get mad.'"

You're citing an interview with Coolio, which doesn't reflect Weird Al's experience. I don't have a citation on hand, but the story I've always read is Weird Al asked Coolio's label, got a "yes" back, and believed that the label had asked Coolio. Ever since then he made sure to get the answer directly from the artist in question.

Regardless, he got the owner's permission. (Not the artist's though)

Pretty rich of him to be upset over a parody version of his rap version of a Stevie Wonder song.

But "doing whatever the creator wants" also isn't the same thing as being right.

It is in this case.

Mine is "Midvale School for the Gifted"

Only every single time I try to push a door I should be pulling open.

"Cat Fud"

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