[firefax]

Newgrounds taught me about the "fair use" defense when parodying wayyyyy back when their "Teletubby fun land" got them the ire of the BBC's lawyers.

I can't find anything documenting that saga -- in fact, it looks like a lot of the early content from before the "auto portal" an early precursor to video portal like Youtube -- called such because for a spell you had to email Tom your work to be featured in the "portal" -- clicking it took you a random user contribution, and below it was a hand curated list.

People forget how innovative, on a technical level, games like "Pico's School" were in the 90s.

I still remember a computer camp counselor admonishing me "you shouldn't know what that is, you're a kid" when first shown Linux and told to "open pico" and blurted out "I didn't know Tom Fulp made linux too".

Anyways thanks for the blast to the past OP -- I had no idea the site was still thriving, happy to hear it.

(And I hope one day they can resurrect the old school "Assassin" games)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico%27s_School

[waltbosz]

I remember reading an article about how Newgrounds was contacted by the BBC around the time the Teletubbies game was published and they thought they were in trouble for the Teletubbies game, but actually the email was about interviewing them about the success of their Club a Baby Seal game.

[tetris11]

https://www.newgrounds.com/tubby/wired.html

There's a press section, but nothing directly from the BBC

[firefax]

This simply states "This file is hosted on Newgrounds.com"

[SnuffBox]

It's probably because of referrers, opened it in an incognito window and it worked just fine.

[firefax]

https://www.newgrounds.com/tubby/netfreedom.html

This is the page I was referring to. Looks like the nonprofit involved might not still be around?

[tetris11]

weird, seems to work for me

But try the parent directory

[firefax]

There was absolutely a brief legal threat paired with a comedic "fuck you we have fair use" page up on their site at one point.

I don't think they'd be talking about fair use if they were just being interviewed about how mean they allegedly were.

[BlitzGeology91]

> Newgrounds taught me about the "fair use" defense when parodying wayyyyy back when their "Teletubby fun land" got them the ire of the BBC's lawyers.

> I can't find anything documenting that saga[…]

You can find Teletubby Fun Land here: <https://www.newgrounds.com/tubby>. If you want to read more about the BBC situation, then click on the middle finger that’s on that page.

> (And I hope one day they can resurrect the old school "Assassin" games)

https://www.newgrounds.com/collection/assassin

[firefax]

>You can find Teletubby Fun Land here: <https://www.newgrounds.com/tubby>. If you want to read more about the BBC situation, then click on the middle finger that’s on that page.

Thanks for that, sadly it looks like as I said, Assassin is gone for good :(

>Unfortunately most of my early Assassin games were deleted when the 2012 site redesign launched and a bunch of old files were cleared out. My original games had never been part of the Portal system so they were easy to overlook.