Family Guy on copyright

We all know Family Guy as that raunchy hilarious animated show on FOX who may cross the line more than once in just one episode. So it’s not hard to believe that the creator and producer of Family Guy, Seth McFarland and company have been sued multiple times. Mostly for copyright infringement.

To be more specific, Family Guy has had three lawsuits on copyright infringement and all three times the courts have ruled in favor of McFarland.

Shows like Family Guy feed on publicity like this, pushing the envelope and seeing how far they can go without being sued, or canceled. They’ve gotten away with copyrighting mostly from the help of the first amendment. In 2007 when they were in a lawsuit with Bourne co. Music publishers for on the song “wish upon a star” by a parody song called “I need a Jew” it was ruled under the first amendment that it was not infringe copyright because they transformed the song for comical use.

The video below is a bit bad quality, but it shows the genius of these Family Guy writers in making fun of copyright.