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

Juris-my-dick-tion

[Citizen of Earth]

Exactly what did they expect a Canadian ISP to do with a DMCA takedown notice?

Re:Let me be the first to say

[mcgrew]

Nah, she looks like a crackwhore or needle junkie. And those girls will put anything in their mouths.

Maybe not bad Photoshopping at all

[macraig]

That woman is a SERIOUS ectomorph. Her waistline is not disproportionate to the rest of her body. It is quite possible that she is just that thin, and probably not helping with a restricted diet and heavy exercise.