Ralph "Don't Run" Nader has won a key legal battle against Mastercard. Mastercard sued Nader over a parody of its "priceless" ad campaign that Nader maintained was a fair use — and today the NY Southern District Court ruled in Nader's favor. My cow-orker Jason Schultz has the scoop.
Back in 2000, Ralph Nader ran a bunch of ads critiquing the corporate interests behind the Bush and Gore campaigns. To make his point, he used the style and some of ideas behind MasterCard's "Priceless" ad campaign — specifically calling out the dollar amounts that corporate interests paid to candidates to secure their positions on the issues.
