{"id":12456,"date":"2008-01-28T10:06:22","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T15:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12456"},"modified":"2014-01-11T14:21:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T19:21:29","slug":"winnie-the-pooooww","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/28\/winnie-the-pooooww\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnie the Po—OOOWW!!<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest cover of the Belgian magazine Humo<\/a>—which I’d never heard of before but which my poor translation skills cause me to believe is a cross between the National Lampoon<\/i> and Spy<\/i>—has caught the attention of Walt Disney’s army of lawyers, which is never a good thing. (Just ask Dan O’Neill and the Air Pirates<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\"WinnieHumo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The cover, by the artist Jeroom, features Winnie the Pooh bludgeoning Piglet with a hammer while Eeyore and Tigger watch on. The image is supposedly illustrating a story on near-death experiences. (Though, if you ask me, if anyone deserves to get bludgeoned to death with a hammer, it’s that Eeyore, who as far as I’m concerned has been asking for it for years.)<\/p>\n

Disney’s lawyers are supposedly investigating their options, while Humo<\/i> is defending its actions as parody. Here in the U.S., the claim of satire would certainly protect Humo<\/i>, but I have no idea whether that’s considered a sufficient defense internationally.<\/p>\n

I’m assuming that the magazine is on solid ground, but is there anyone out there with a better understanding of international trademark and copyright law who can give a definitive answer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest cover of the Belgian magazine Humo—which I’d never heard of before but which my poor translation skills cause me to believe is a cross between the National Lampoon and Spy—has caught the attention of Walt Disney’s army of lawyers, which is never a good thing. (Just ask Dan O’Neill and the Air Pirates.) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[399],"class_list":["post-12456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-winnie-the-pooh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12458,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions\/12458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}