Rick Dees - When Sonny Sniffs Glue
Channel: R Street Institute
Date: 2017-05-08

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Find us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/r-street-institute/ Disc jockey Rick Dees sought and was refused permission to use Marvin Fisher's song, "When Sunny Gets Blue" -- previously recorded by Johnny Mathis and Nat King Cole, among others - for his parody version, "When Sonny Sniffs Glue." The parody used 29 seconds of the original song. Fisher complained on grounds of unfair competition, defamation and copyright infringement. A fair-use defense was properly lodged against the claim of infringement and the 1986 decision by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case Fisher v. Dees has since been used as a benchmark for comedic parody.