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No it's not. There are trademark exemptions for satire/parody, and have been for a long time.

Sure the companies could have sued, but chances would have been about exactly 0% for those companies to win the case against the EFF on the back of their trademarks, and they knew that very well (my opinion), that case would've probably just been dismissed immediately.



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