The Web TV Comedy channel STASHWAX, has sent a cease-and-desist order to NBC's "Saturday Night Live," accusing them of copyright infringement.
Media Daily News says that "The order demands that 'SNL' end all visibility of its short video skit 'SNL Apocalypto Re-Cut,' which Stashwax claims rips off the concept and content of a similar skit created and released by the Web channel months earlier."
Stashwax claims that a parody they created of Mel Gibson, using footage from his movie "Braveheart" was copied by NBC (GE) which chose to use material from "Apocalypto" to parody the same thing: Gibson's arrest and subsequent tirade.
The Stashwax web site has a place on their home page where you can go and watch the two parodies and see the simularities between them.
Lloyd Grenache, president of Stashwax, said to NBC: "Stay off our gags, Michaels. Gibson is our anti-Semite. Go find your own."
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