Parodies

While the Top This TV review team gets a kick out of watching parody commercials that are submitted, they must regretfully reject these videos.  Why?  According to the lawyers, the law on parodies is mixed so there is a significant risk that a parody might be found to be a derivative work and therefore infringing on a third party's rights.  Thus, parody commercials regretfully can not be accepted.

According to Webster's Online Dictionary, a parody is:

1. A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way.

2. Humorous or satirical mimicry.

In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. Parodies exists in all art media, including literature, music and cinema.

So please do not spend your time and energy creating a parody commercial!