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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Well, U.S.-based Parragon Publishing licenses the rights from Disney for various activity books. Dutton is an imprint under Penguin, which does the "classics" you're basing your work on. I imagine the former would be slighted if you didn't have rights to publish, but I imagine the latter would be more likely to take action.
Disney, on the other hand, gets my vote as the first to sue you if it were to happen. I've heard of them doing stuff like that and, after all, they are the actual holder of the copyright.
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Wouldn't it be protected as parody, though?
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Although a parody can be considered a derivative work under United States Copyright Law, it can be protected from claims by the copyright owner of the original work under the fair use doctrine, which is codified in 17 USC § 107. The Supreme Court of the United States stated that parody "is the use of some elements of a prior author's composition to create a new one that, at least in part, comments on that author's works."
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Then again, that might not stop Disney from suing anyway. Long legal battles are never fun.
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