Summary

This parody of the recast of Mahonri Young's 1947 statue of Brigham Young publicly displayed on BYU campus shows the university's founder posing as gay superhero with a billowing rainbow flag cape overlooking BYU campus. The permanent statue (installed in 1961) is parodied from a symbol of conservative heterosexual views that the campus and its founder represent into a gay superman-like character. U.S. Code Title 17 Chapter 1 Section 107 gives parodies protection for fair use as a derivative work. According to the US Supreme Court a parody is "the use of some elements of a prior author's composition to create a new one that, at least in part, comments on that author's works", and that commentary function provides some justification for use of the older work (see Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.). See also the Wikipedia derivative work page.

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