This page describes our practices and beliefs about our work. It is not legal advice.​

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Our Work Is Satire and Parody

Color the News creates original satirical artwork about public figures and matters of public concern — politicians, billionaires, executives, and other newsmakers whose conduct is the subject of public debate. Our coloring pages are political commentary, parody, and caricature, a tradition as old as the printing press and protected by the First Amendment.

 

Our coloring pages are obvious works of satire. They are not endorsed by, affiliated with, or approved by any person depicted in them — a fact we suspect they would be eager to confirm. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is intentional, and is the entire point.

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Fair Use

Some of our artwork references or transforms existing material — news imagery, public statements, logos, and other elements of the public record — for the purpose of commentary, criticism, and parody. We believe these uses constitute fair use under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act, which protects transformative works created for purposes such as criticism, comment, and news reporting.

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Where third-party trademarks or brand elements appear in our work, they appear for purposes of commentary and parody only. All trademarks remain the property of their respective owners, none of whom sponsor or endorse us, and several of whom would likely prefer we stop.

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Our Copyright

The artwork, coloring pages, coloring books, and written content on this site are original creative works owned by Color the News and protected by copyright. Membership grants a personal, non-transferable license to download and print our coloring pages for your own personal, non-commercial use.

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What you may do: print unlimited copies for yourself, color them by any means available, display your finished masterpieces, and post photos of your colored work on social media.

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What you may not do: redistribute, resell, sublicense, or share our digital files, or use our artwork for commercial purposes. We made these. We are extremely protective of them, in the way that only people who draw villains for a living can be.

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Intellectual Property Concerns

If you are a rights holder and believe material on this site infringes your copyright, contact us through our contact page with: (1) identification of the copyrighted work you believe is infringed, (2) the location of the material on our site, (3) your contact information, and (4) a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized. We review all such notices promptly and in complete seriousness — this is the other part of the operation we play completely straight.

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If you are a public figure and your concern is that we drew you: see the first section of this page, and perhaps reflect.