--- To: declanat_private From: Earl Hood <earlat_private> Reply-To: Earl Hood <earlat_private> Subject: Fox sends a cease-and-desist order to site that sells Fox parody site Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:57:10 -0500 <http://www.agitproperties.com/cease.htm> FOX NEWS ISSUES CEASE-AND-DESIST TO THE AGITPROPERTIES POSSE 6/20/2003 It was, apparently, just a matter of time. Our company, Agitproperties LLC, the Austin progressive counter-propagandists responsible for the nationally-famous FAUX NEWS Channel, P.N.N. (Pentagon News Network) and Bill O'Reilly Hitler Youth Tee-shirts, has been issued a cease-and-desist order by FOX NEWS HQ in New York. As you know, we have an huge, unavoidable red and white disclaimer clearly stating that our tee-shirts are political parodies and we are not connected or endorsed by FOX NEWS in any way. It is on every page of the site and takes up a quarter of each page. Despite these enormous disclaimers, Chris Silvestri, Senior Media Council for Fox News, tells us that, "The Fox News Channel is in no way affiliated with the Website and, by creating confusion as to the relationship between Fox's programs and the Network, you harm the goodwill (goodwill??? Ed.) represented by Fox's program." ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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