{"id":549956,"date":"2006-08-25T12:23:01","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T12:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549956-online-barney-debacle.html"},"modified":"2006-08-25T12:23:01","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T12:23:01","slug":"online-barney-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549956-online-barney-debacle.html","title":{"rendered":"Online Barney debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The Electronic Frontier Foundation said its federal court suit was aimed at protecting the free speech rights of a website publisher &quot;who has suffered years of baseless legal threats over his parody of the Barney and Friends television show.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The suit against the Lyons Partnership claims that the operator of the children&#8217;s program &quot;has repeatedly sent meritless cease-and-desist letters&quot; to Stuart Frankel, whose website depicts the purple Tyrannosaurus rex as a satanic figure who must be destroyed by a global &quot;jihad.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The dinosaur&#8217;s creators and Frankel have been in a back-and-forth legal battle for at least four years. The lawsuit seeks a court affirmation that the parody does not infringe Barney&#8217;s copyright or trademark rights, EFF said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Barney&#8217;s lawyers are sending out intimidating lawyer letters to parody websites that are clearly protected by the (US constitution&#8217;s) First Amendment and fair use,&quot; said EFF attorney Fred von Lohmann. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;It&#8217;s time for Barney to call off his lawyer armies and get back to entertaining children.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"2\">INet-Bridge<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An online activist group said it was suing the operators of children&#8217;s television character Barney the dinosaur for trying to use copyright laws to halt an Internet parody. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}