A federal judge in Trenton has dismissed a suit filed against The Cartoon Network by a video gamer who was parodied on one of the network’s programs.
The network admitted that a character in its program “The Regular Show” is patterned after Billy Mitchell, who once held record high scores in “Donkey Kong” and “Pac-Man.” But the parody is entitled to First Amendment protection under the transformative use test because the character is not a literal representation of Mitchell, U.S. District Judge Anne Thompson of the District of New Jersey ruled in Mitchell v. The Cartoon Network, Inc.
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