The Air Pirates were a group of cartoonists who created two issues of an underground comic called Air Pirates Funnies in 1971, leading to a famous lawsuit by The Walt Disney Company.
They called themselves the Air Pirates in honor of a group of villains who were foils for Mickey Mouse in the 1930s. In real life, the true villains came from the court system, which in the 1970s unfairly ruled against the Air Pirates use of Disney characters under copyright law's Fair Use Doctrine, a fundamental principle of copyright law that allows the use of copyrighted artwork and chararacters by other parties if the primary objective is the depiction of parody. Which is precisely what the Air Pirates did. If Mickey and Minnie having sex and using drugs isn't parody, what is? The case remains controversial among comics critics and free-speech advocates.
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