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* 2 Live Crew recorded a parody of Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman" and released it on their album ''Clean As They Wanna Be'' despite being refused permission by the copyright owners Acuff-Rose Music to actually do so. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court found that parodying copyrighted work, even if the parody is of a commercial nature, is a sufficient defence for fair use. This is why [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] can release so many parodies (but gets permission to stay friendly with artists). It's also the go-to citation for anyone who receives DMCA threats. ''Campbell'' v. ''Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.'', 510 U.S. 569 (1994)

* Eveready Battery Co. (as of 2000, Energizer Holdings Inc.) had been running a set of television commercials using its pink bunny to walk through [[Parody Commercial|parody commercials]] of fictional products. Adolph Coors Brewing Co. decided to do a beer commercial in which [[Leslie Nielsen]] wore a pink bunny costume, as a parody of Eveready's own parodies. Eveready didn't like this and sued. In deciding that Coors' parody was fair use, the court pointed out that there's no competition between the sale of batteries (or their uses) and the sale of beer. In comparing the Energizer Bunny and a man in a pink rabbit suit, the judge pointed out that "Mr. Nielsen is not a toy..., does not run on batteries, is not 15 inches tall... [and] is not predominantly pink." ''Eveready Battery Co.'' v. ''Adolph Coors Co.'', 765 F. Supp. 440 (N.D. Ill. 1991).