Home   •   About   •   Spank My Monkey: The Full Story   •   Media   •   Spank My Monkey Photo   •   PowerTV   •   Tenneco   •   Anti-Christ of the Hot Rod World Video   •   Richard Rawlings   •   Corky Coker   •   David Coker   •   SEMA   •   The Learning Channel   •   The Bullrun   •   Dodgy Monkey Media   •   Is that Fake Rust?   •   It Looks Like...   •   Sponsors   •   Comic Gallery   •   The SpankMaker   •   Parody and the Law   •   Legal Action   •   How You Can Help   •   Marketing Suggestions   •   Submit a Marketer   •   Feedback SpankMyMarketer.com in the Media Discovery Upset About Parody Spanking "It's pretty amusing when a media company that should by definition have some media savvy needs to find out the hard way that marketing campaigns containing the phrases "Spank My Monkey" and "Anti-Christ" may come back to haunt them." -- full article... Men In Thongs The Center of Copyright, Free Speech Dispute "Outraged that its own marketing program was lampooned, Discovery Communications lobbed a legal filing earlier this month on the grounds of copyright infringement and defamation of its board. Citizen rights advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation has now stepped forward to defend SpankMaker, stating the Communications Decency Act protects the Web site creator from liability for information intended to provoke and encourage criticism and parody." -- full saved article... Media Giant Bullies Internet Critic "'Once again, a business is trying to use false legal claims to chill criticism,' said Staff Attorney Corynne McSherry. 'Fortunately, more and more, the targets of these kinds of threats are fighting back.'" -- full press release... Motor Mouths "The Hotrodders.com website has launched a satirical spinoff, SpankMyMarketer.com, aimed at exposing 'illegal stealth marketing' on behalf of companies including General Motors, Holley, Comp Cams and Dynomax, which they say has been posted on theirs and other auto-related websites." -- full article... EFF Backs SpankMaker "SpankMaker helps people parody a tacky marketing campaign, launched in connection with a Discovery TV production." -- full article... IP Kills Democracy -- Harvard Law School The SpankMaker is studied by a Harvard Law School class, in an online wiki debate. -- full wiki article... Discovery Communications Tries to Chill Speech -- InfoZine "A lawyer for Discovery has demanded that the website operator remove the template, claiming it infringes Discovery's copyright and is used to defame the company. But in a letter sent in response today, EFF outlines how the use of the images in the template is clearly a non-infringing parody." -- full article... How Not to Advertise -- Robot Martini "Naturally, the members of the forum who had two or more brain cells saw through the tissue-paper thin disguise and, also naturally, were offended that their intelligence had been so roundly insulted...if the parties who started this fiasco had been man enough to own up to their stupidity and apologize, it probably wouldn't have ballooned the way it did." -- full post... Related Information on SpankMyMarketer.com Spank My Monkey Photograph Anti-Christ of the Hot Rod World Promotional Video SEMA, the Specialty Equipment Market Association The Learning Channel The SpankMaker

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