Fair Use? Or Copyright infringement?

[Ghoulish Delight]

To me, the relevant thing about this story isn't so much whether it's fair use or not. That's debatable. What's unsettling is that it proves, once again, that anyone with money can just bully anyone else out of even trying by threatening costly legal action.

The guy was not making a lot of money off of this thing. Even if he had a solid case (which he thinks he did), he could not have afforded to fight it. Even if he won, he would have had to spend more than it cost him to just settle it and make it go away. Which is a fvcking pathetic state of affairs, imo.