By Brian Murphy @ AdvertisingLaw​.fkfs.com, March 14

[....] Within hours of the initial broadcast, wickedly funny memes incorporating images and footage of Mateo’s exit began pouring out of the magical, primordial place where memes are born – in other words, out of the fertile minds of fans and followers armed with a laptop, the internet, and a basic editing program.  There are a lot of Miss Vanjie memes.  One begat another, and then another.  (Some of the best can be found in this compilation.)

My personal favorite is the Bart Simpson/Vanjie meme.  In the original clipfrom The Simpsons, Bart finds himself alone in a room filled with megaphones (who let that happen?) and quickly figures out that by stacking the megaphones in a row, he can amplify the volume [....]

When IP lawyers (myself included) see a funny meme like this one, instead of (or perhaps after) chuckling, we often ask ourselves:  did the creator get clearance, and, if not, how many different rights were potentially infringed? [....]