Microsoft was fined in NYC back in 2002 for "guerilla marketing" tactics for their MSN service which included a similar water-based marking chalk used to paint their butterflies on the sidewalks.
More recently, NBC was fined for using water-based marking chalk to stencil slogans in San Francisco for their upcoming series 4400 on USA Networks.
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LRHB @ Dec 19th 2005 12:04AM
Microsoft was fined in NYC back in 2002 for "guerilla marketing" tactics for their MSN service which included a similar water-based marking chalk used to paint their butterflies on the sidewalks.
More recently, NBC was fined for using water-based marking chalk to stencil slogans in San Francisco for their upcoming series 4400 on USA Networks.
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/24/BAGIT7SDFK1.DTL
Here's another interesting link to a site discussing legal and not-so-legal methods of corporate vandalism.
> http://www.forbes.com/2002/11/12/cz_as_1111graffiti_print.html
So it's not just the little guy who gets it for trying to be nice use non-permanent methods to get their message across!