| Remember last week when the Merkley campaign began their widely-panned attempt to smear Steve Novick with their "Believe" ad? And in this age of multimedia approaches, created an accompanying website called NovickInsultsDemocrats.com? And ripped off the Novick campaign's intellectual property lock, stock and barrel to do it? And then used court citings to claim it was not theft but an act of parody, sending people scrambling to it in a fruitless quest to find the funny part? Maybe the lawyers called them back, finally. Check it out now: the format of the page has been reduced to simple text on a white background, removing the image of Novick and the styling and fonts of the NovickforSenate page.
Which suggests two things: 1) they found out it was NOT legally speaking a parody page; and 2) that was merely a convenient excuse, apparently, since even without the stolen style format the CONTENT would still be a parody, right? But the "this is a parody" comment added on after the fact is now also gone.
D'oh! |
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