Comments on: South Park meets WebSphere at IBM’s Impact2009

By: yodeets

yodeets — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:36:02 +0000

Atech & iRise S. Park parodies become anticipated lead-up to IBM confs — “edgy marketing” success http://bit.ly/QIUgw (via @Atech_Speaks)

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By: Atech_Speaks

Atech_Speaks — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:13:41 +0000

Atech & iRise S. Park parodies have become an anticipated lead-up to IBM conferences — “edgy marketing” successs http://bit.ly/QIUgw

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By: shawnzhu

shawnzhu — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:09:05 +0000

http://tinyurl.com/q2wn2j I like those kids in South Park.

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By: People Over Process » IT Management & Cloud Podcast #42 - Good Old Fashioned IT Management

Thu, 07 May 2009 23:50:26 +0000

[...] IBM Impact has been going on this week in Las Vegas. After explaining what that is and skirting around our light coverage of it (neither of us was there, though RedMonker James Governor has been there all week) we discuss how IBM acquisitions have been generalizing the conferences. This also leads us into a discussion about conferences in general I’ve been having a lot recently: large vendors are looking to get into doing more, smaller conferences. John reports on hearing about how the crowds went wild at the prospect of “never having to install WebSphere again.” [...]

By: tomsmiled

tomsmiled — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:06:27 +0000

Nice one: RT @leeprovoost: South Park meets WebSphere at IBM’s Impact2009 http://bit.ly/kNpvp >> hilarious

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By: pnyheim

pnyheim — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:06:10 +0000

this is hilarious >> South Park meets WebSphere at IBM’s Impact2009 http://bit.ly/kNpvp via @leeprovoost

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By: leeprovoost

leeprovoost — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:56:06 +0000

South Park meets WebSphere at IBM’s Impact2009 http://bit.ly/kNpvp >> hilarious

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By: normnz

normnz — Tue, 05 May 2009 00:39:09 +0000

IBM Conference video http://tinyurl.com/dyekfg

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By: Roo Reynolds

Roo Reynolds — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:53:05 +0000

Yes, I was thinking that it’s on shaky copyright ground too. There is protection under copyright law for parodies, but I think the line being walked by this video is pretty fine. The average person probably wouldn’t interpret it as a parody of Parker and Stone’s work, but rather as an official South Park creation being used to endorse iRise and Ascendant (and perhaps IBM). Hmm.

By: James Governor

James Governor — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:52:50 +0000

Roo – turns out you could well be right. i chatted to some people here at Impact last night, and it looks like the video was created by a business partner. So yes it is very funny, but no, IBM and Sandy may well not be responsible. The way you pose the question raises some interesting issues around South Park. If it wasn’t sanctioned by Parker and Stone chances are they’d be rather unhappy about it from a copyright perspective. Probably better I don’t drill into these issues any more.