{"id":1658,"date":"2007-12-12T13:50:43","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T19:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2007-12-12T13:50:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T19:50:44","slug":"best-buy-threatens-blogger-over-someone-elses-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/12\/best-buy-threatens-blogger-over-someone-elses-parody\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Buy threatens blogger over someone else&#8217;s parody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/198834337\/best-buy-threatens-b.html\" >Best Buy threatens blogger over someone else&#8217;s parody<\/a>:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/images\/improve-everywhere-logo.jpg\" width=\"450\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nBest Buy <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/best-buy-cease-desist-letter\/\" >sent a cease and desist letter<\/a> to blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\" >Scott Beale (Laughing Squid)<\/a> for having had the audacity to blog news that prankster\/comedy troupe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improveverywhere.com\/\" >Improv Everywhere<\/a> selling <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/improv-everywhere-best-buy-blue-polo-shirts\/\" >t-shirts that were a parody of the Best Buy<\/a> brand. Whether or not the parody is legally in the clear is one matter, but Best Buy nastygramming Beale for simply blogging about it &#8212; not selling the shirts or participating directly? IANAL, but seems *way* out of line. Above, the parody logo that appeared on the t-shirts in question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Buy threatens blogger over someone else&#8217;s parody: Best Buy sent a cease and desist letter to blogger Scott Beale (Laughing Squid) for having had the audacity to blog news that prankster\/comedy troupe Improv Everywhere selling t-shirts that were a parody of the Best Buy brand. Whether or not the parody is legally in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/12\/best-buy-threatens-blogger-over-someone-elses-parody\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best Buy threatens blogger over someone else&#8217;s parody<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-qK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}