if they make it almost exactly the same and ācreditā it in the smallest font possible and didnāt get permission from the original authorā¦ i would say thatās definitely a ripoff
didnāt get permission from the original author
Tell me you donāt know xkcd without saying you donāt know xkcd. These comics are licensed as CC-BY-NC 2.5, which means you are allowed to remix and use them, without explicitly asking for permission, as long as you attribute the original/author (which is given here) and as long as you do it non-commercially (which is given for this post IMHO).
How is this a parody? Itās not poking fun at the original or pointing out its flaws.
quoth wikipedia: āA parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.ā ā¦ āThe literary theorist Linda Hutcheon said āparody ā¦ is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text.āā
