Photoshop Disaster Draws DMCA Notice For Boing Boing

Pickens writes: "Cory Doctorow writes that Ralph Lauren issued a DMCA takedown notice after Boing Boing republished the Photoshop disaster contained in a Ralph Lauren advertisement in which a model's proportions appear to have been altered to give her an impossibly skinny body with the model's head larger than her pelvis. Doctorow says that one of the things that makes their ISP Priority Colo so awesome is that they don't automatically act on DMCA takedowns and proceeded to dare Lauren to sue. 'This is classic fair use: a reproduction "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting," etc,' writes Doctorow. 'Copyright law doesn't give you the right to threaten your critics for pointing out the problems with your offerings.' Doctorow adds that every time Lauren threatens to sue he will 'reproduce the original criticism, making damned sure that all our readers get a good, long look at it,' 'publish your spurious legal threat along with copious mockery,' and 'offer nourishing soup and sandwiches to your models.'"

Comments

I'm grateful

[ErikTheRed]

That Boing Boing was able to get us the skinny on this.

Re:I'm grateful

[A. B3ttik]

Ralph Lauren's Legal Case is kinda thin.

Re:I'm grateful

[commodore64_love]

(bkspc) (bkspc) (bkspc)

I was going to say something about the impartiality of the judges and legislating from the bench, but I've reconsidered. I'm not touching this skeleton with a size 0 dress.

Re:I'm grateful

[vmxeo]

Ralph Lauren's response was also obviously disproportionate

Re:I'm grateful

[Hoi Polloi]

They are just starved for attention.

Re:I'm grateful

[TomRK1089]

Have fun clicking that link in print. :P

Re:I'm grateful

[mattack2]

or, hey, a bar code you can swipe with a cat-shaped thing, and make another company go bankrupt!

Re:I'm grateful

[Hurricane78]

Well, where can I get the original source? I mean the model. I'd like to do some code checking. :P

heroin chic is back?

[Trepidity]

Someone page Sir Mix-a-Lot.

I don't want an apology for Heroes Reborn.

[Minwee]

I was, however, surprised to find that Rob Liefeld was now working for Ralph Lauren.

Look at it. Body parts which were obviously mixed and matched from several different mannequins, a spine that has to travel through another dimension to reach her pelvis, and no feet. Throw in a couple belts covered with pouches and you've got every Liefeld girl ever drawn.

Re:Let me be the first to say

[Attrition_cp]

s/tap/snap/ig

Re:It is kind of sad to think

[Jesus_666]

Well, she looks perfectly normal for an Ethereal. I think that X-COM sould pay that advertisement company a visit and investigate a possible infiltration.

Re:pa-ra-pum

[noundi]

In a few years, when this is forgotten, Ralphy will remember this as one of the skeletons in his closet.

Re:pa-ra-pum

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

I'm glad Doctorow had the spine to stand up to this. I really couldn't stomach another battle of talking heads.

Baby Got Jack

[denis-The-menace]

Baby Got Jack

I like small butts and I cannot lie,
You honkies can't deny,
When a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
and a big thing in your face I get Sick,
cuz I like a toothpick
I'll beat that booty with a stick
Even the jeans she's wearing, her pants
are almost tearing
No, baby I want a flat booty,
That's tootie fruitie, while honkies tried to warn me
that butt you've got is, oh, so corny ooh Chicken
smooth skin you say you wanna get my olds,
well peck me,
peck me, cuz you ain't that average chickadee.
Hell with romancin', I'll take her wallet dancin'
Rich. Bitch. I'll dig for her money ditch
So tired of ebony, Big butts are not my theme
if you ask me what my
flavour is I'll tell you vanilla ice cream
So honkies
(yeah) honkies(yeah) does your girlfriend have a derriere?
(Hell yeah!)
Well shrink it, shrink it, so I can get right down
and dink it,

Chorus:
Baby got Jack (wh-white honkies with the real small boot-wh-white honkies with the real small booty)
Baby got Jack (wh-white honkies with the real
small boot-wh-white honkies with the real small booty)

I like 'em flat and small, and when I'm in the mall,
I just can't help myself
I'm doing the dog pund
call (woo woo woo woo)
Don't like a sister, who farts
while playing Twister.
I wish those beans did miss her,
even Uncle Ben would fist her
I like my booties real
slender and tender,
And if I see a big booty, I'll
put it in the blender
Don't want a rear fender.
I get into my Honda
What the hell is an anaconda?
All I know is that I like Jayne Fonda's, better than Yolanda's.

Chorus

Yeah, baby, when it
comes to females, Comso knows everything what they're talking about
36, 24, 36... haa haa, only if she's 7'8"

Flat on the bottom, and I like it like that,
Flat on the bottom, and I like it like that.

Re:I work where they do a lot of these photoshoots

[mewsenews]

Schindler's List 2: This time, he's checking it twice

Re:It is kind of sad to think

[mcgrew]

Although it's typical for thin women to have little cleavage, sometimes you see the rare thin woman with large breasts.

I know a woman like that, and hers are silicone. Hint to any young females out there who are thinking about breast augmentation -- silicone gets hard as it ages. When you hit forty, your tits will be hard as rocks. Hers are.

Not me

[commodoresloat]

I didn't even read the article; I just came to this discussion because someone said there would be soup and sandwiches.

Re:Hey - a new Ask Slashdot idea is born!

[Anonymous Coward]

To attract peacunts, of course.

Clearly

[symbolset]

It's readily apparent here that they hold the copyright on all of calculus. By publishing a calculus book, in whole or even just an equation, you are obviously in violation.

And a well-earned copyright that was. People don't just invent a calculus every day.