RufusAtticus

No, they can sue; they just won't win.

BigJim

Thanks for digging this up guys. The local radio station bought into this hoax, and I looked around for a few minutes this morning but couldn't find it.

Funny stuff.

Damn, Snopes already has it covered.

NialScorva

Well, it's debatable. Was this done by Unfaith? Then it could be construed as mostly a publicity stunt in order to make money off of Metallica's reputation. It's entirely possible that the parody would be considered a trivial aspect of commercial speach. Remember that commercial speach has quite a few more restrictions than private speach. That would let it fall under trademark infringement.

Defiant Heretic

Of course they could win. They have money, don't they?

pariah

http://www1.scoopthis.com/411/met_uf/stc_met_uf_mtv.htm

this page pretends to be mtv...obviously its not, the host is scoopthis not mtv!!! so yes, it is a parody