From: "Arlene Powers" <arleeniebeenie@home.com>
To: "Balloon HQ" <balloon@balloonhq.com>
Subject: Copyright Issue
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 18:15:55 -0700

I have to throw my 2 cents in here, being a co-author of the WAY
Cool Balloon Books, I have done some research on this subject, and Larry 
Moss being a publisher has done the research.  Our research shows that 
copyright laws include a parody law, which allows copyrighted material
to be parodied.  Ballon figures are a parody of these copyrighted figures
and are legal, otherwise, we would have not published them in 
Totally WAY Cool Balloons.  Otherwise satire of movies and books, political
cartoons, and  caricatures, would be illegal. That is one of the reasons 
we have goofy sound alike names for the balloons.  This points out that 
the figures are a parody.
Now, this poses a philisophical question, if the balloon figures and names 
are not funny, can you be in trouble legally for not being funny???
Does corny count???????
Hmmmmmmmmmm............
Arlene Powers 
Arleenie Beenie (The 'A' in WAY Cool Balloons)