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Photoshop Disaster Draws DMCA Notice For Boing Boing

Posted by timothy on from the need-to-fatten-that-one-a-bit dept.

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.'"

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  1. I'm grateful by ErikTheRed · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    1. Re:I'm grateful by A.+B3ttik · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ralph Lauren's Legal Case is kinda thin.

    2. Re:I'm grateful by vmxeo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ralph Lauren's response was also obviously disproportionate

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    3. Re:I'm grateful by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 5, Funny

      They are just starved for attention.

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    4. Re:I'm grateful by mattack2 · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  2. heroin chic is back? by Trepidity · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone page Sir Mix-a-Lot.

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  3. Re:Let me be the first to say by Attrition_cp · · Score: 5, Funny

    s/tap/snap/ig

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  4. Re:pa-ra-pum by noundi · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  5. Re:I work where they do a lot of these photoshoots by mewsenews · · Score: 5, Funny

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