From the Stay Free! email announcement list:
Wish I Thought of it Department: the European art group 0100101110101101.ORG 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.
Here’s hoping that Nike Ground gets a ton of publicity for this and spurs much-needed discussions about the corporate takeover of public space.
Genius. See it before they get trampled by lawyers and have to take it down.
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