Article: Adbusters Media Foundation Wins Another Legal Victory Against CanWest Global; Plans to Sue in the US.

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September 21, 2009
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Sep 21, 2009 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- For the second time in six months, Adbusters Media Foundation has scored a major legal victory against media conglomerate CanWest Global.

The foundation, best known for publishing Adbusters magazine and organizing Buy Nothing Day, took legal action against Global Television (and the CBC and the CRTC) for refusing to sell it airtime to run citizen-produced ads in 2004. One of Adbusters' many controversial "uncommercials" warns of the dangers of overconsumption by featuring a burping pig superimposed on a map of North America.

Adbusters won a crucial ruling last April when the British ...

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