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Judgment Court The Court concurs with what European dictionaries say about parody. The essential characteristics are that an existing work is imitated with clear differences, and that humor is used or ridiculed. The Court finds that there are no additional requirements. The parody does not have to include a reference to the source, does not have to have its own original character and the criticism that is expressed does not necessarily have to relate to the original work or its maker. In other words, not only can you use a parody to tease the original author, but you can "tackle" whoever you want. That is an extension of the 'old law' in the Netherlands and other EU member states, and good news for cartoonists and the newspapers for which they publish, so a parody is not an illegal publication
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