MasterCard Jokes Going to Far?

Let’s Think About MasterCard Jokes for a Moment

Let’s just think a moment. You’re a huge corporation who has spent tons of money on an advertising campaign. Suddenly, there are thousands of people making fun of this campaign, which isn’t a big deal, but some of the jokes they’re making are downright disturbing. What do you do?

Getting Lawyers Involved

That’s exactly what is happening with the MasterCard jokes. What started out as harmless humor has turned into potential lawsuits. Some sites have been putting pretty disturbing MasterCard jokes on their pages and MasterCard’s lawyers have been sending out letters to these sites demanding that they cease and desist. What are the site’s responses to these letters?

Protected by Law

The sites that have been putting MasterCard jokes on their web pages are ignoring MasterCard’s demands saying that they don’t have to remove their Mastercard jokes from their websites because they’re protected by parody and satire laws instated by the federal government so it appears that we’ll have enough MasterCard jokes to go around for quite some time.