Nike sues artists over satire
Wish I Thought of it Department: the European art group
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has created a fake Nike website,
Nike Ground, portraying the company as real-estate vultures who buy streets and squares in cities around the world in order to rename them and install giant
monuments of the swoosh. The site looks and feels so much like a Nike site
that even the savviest web surfers should be forgiven for missing the point.
But if ambiguity makes for a muddy message, it also insures that Nike will
take note, and indeed -- Phil Knight et al. have issued a 30-page injunction
demanding the immediate removal of material related to copyrighted material.
Posted by bluprnt at October 23, 2003 09:10 PM