Save House of Cosby’s!
Yesterday, Andy received a Cease and Desist from Bill Cosby’s lawyers that ordered him to remove a parody of Bill Cosby called “House of Cosby’s,” which was created by amateurs. As this is pretty clearly a parody of a public figure, the legal threat is tantamount to legal bullying on the behalf of Bill Cosby. Any comedian should understand that parody and satire are protected under free speech, and those who would attempt to silence that are simply hurting themselves.
To show my support, i’ve created a “Save House of Cosby’s” banner that you can grab from here and post on your website. I’m not a graphic designer, but hopefully it does make you curious. Link it to: http://www.waxy.org/archive/2006/03/03/litigati.shtml Hopefully it will help spread awareness about the stand that Andy is taking on this issue.
March 3rd, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Hi, I thought I’d let you know that I used your banner on my mirror of the content: http://www.stroeck.com/houseofcosbys
Thank you for making it!
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:22 pm
Y’see Theo, you got to learn to let a man parody a comedian! Y’see.
March 6th, 2006 at 9:55 am
Great idea! I hope to see this everywhere.
March 7th, 2006 at 6:19 am
I have used it on my forum to promote waxy.orgs campaign