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> I'm not a lawyer, but no one here has satisfactorily explained why this group running a fake NRA ad is a different animal from SNL running a fake McDonald's ad.

Maybe because:

> Saturday Night Live has been running parody advertising purporting to originate from real organizations for decades.

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So is the implication is that if $SaturdayNightLiveRipoff that just started filming this year decides to do something similar, they don't get the same leniency simply because they're new?

I think the point the GP is trying to make is that when you watch SNL you know that there are going to be satirical commercials.

If you took a commercial parody from SNL and played it unaltered during prime time with no introduction, you would probably get in trouble even though the content hasn't changed.

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