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YES MEN WON'T TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER, ALLEGE MATCH AGAINST THEM IS DESTINED AS PUNISHMENT FOR BIASED PARODY


The prankster organisation Yes Men have a inherent right to make make use of of a U.S. Chamber of Commerce's name as well as heading in a joke site, a organisation argues in justice writings filed this week.

The satirists have been asking a sovereign district justice in a District of Columbia to boot a heading transgression legal case filed final Oct by a Chamber of Commerce.

"The justice should commend a Chamber's legal case for what it is — an try to make make use of of egghead skill as well as associated law to retaliate a domestic joke that a Chamber found humorless, as well as that expel neglected light upon a argumentative upon all sides upon meridian change," a Yes Men disagree in a suit filed upon their interest by a digital rights organisation Electronic Frontier Foundation.

The Chamber sued a single week after a Yes Men hold a feign press discussion announcing that a blurb operation organisation had topsy-turvy march upon a due meridian shift check as well as right away supports environmental legislation. The Yes Men additionally combined a joke site that closely resembles a genuine site's media core page.

The attempt quickly fooled a little genuine headlines outlets, together with Reuters, that reported that a Chamber of Commerce had altered a upon all sides upon environmental laws.

The Chamber purported that a Yes Men's travesty infringed upon heading in a approach that caused confusion. But a organisation argues that a little volume of difficulty is an constituent partial of parodies. "The Yes Men's joke does have a extraneous grade of plausibility, though such is a hallmark of satire," they disagree in justice papers.

EFF profession Matt Zimmerman adds: "Parody is about formulating a little kind of present hesitation." He says that putting up "a hulk 'this is a parody' sign" would criticise a force of a send-up.

The Chamber of Commerce additionally purported in a legal case that Yes Men
carried out a attempt for blurb benefit since they used it to
promote a movie "The Yes Men Fix The World." But a satirists reply that a joke was still noncommercial speech, that is entitled to some-more inherent insurance than blurb speech.

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  • January 10, 2010 

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