Imagining interdisciplinary dialogue in the European Court of Justice's Deckmyn decision: conceptual challenges when law and technology regulate parody.

The article analyzes the reasoning of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the case Deckmyn v. Vandersteen wherein the ECJ defined parody as an autonomous concept of EU law with certain essential characteristics. Topics include the focus of the case on a parodic drawing modeled after a cover of the "Suske & Wiske" comic book series, the preceding Advocate General's opinion in the case, and the conceptual challenges posed by parody in the digital age.