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Re:Dear Google: Parody Is Not Trademark Infringement by om2 on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @08:55PM (#7776140)
It can still count as parody even if some people got genuinely confused. Consider that some people get fooled by articles from The Onion.
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Re:Dear Google: Parody Is Not Trademark Infringement by wutbrodo on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @12:16PM (#7779042)
A more apt comparison would be if someone was fooled by an Onion article on the domain http://www.cnn-news.com that had CNN at the top of the page. I'd imagine the vast majority of people would simply assume that was CNN.
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Re:Dear Google: Parody Is Not Trademark Infringement by ateeqs on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @11:22PM (#7776540)
Exactly. I still remember this Onion article from a few years back being confused as actual news.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/28/world/iran-news-agency-duped/

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