Koch Industries Quashes Global Warming Parody – NYTimes.com

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A Conglomerate’s Tack to Quash a Parody Site

Skirting the legal protections for satire, Koch Industries is suing to find out who created a fake news release purported to be from the company.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/business/media/14link.html?_r=1

“We assumed they would be upset about it,” said one of the anonymous pranksters in a telephone interview arranged by Mr. Gupta. “But we had no guess that they would go to the level of a lawsuit. It’s ridiculous and overblown. What we did is completely acceptable, as parody.”