Ralph Lauren Threatens Boing Boing
Ralph Lauren has sent a DMCA takedown notice to Boing Boing's ISP, Priority Colo regarding an article criticising the Photoshop disaster that is a recent Ralph Lauren advertisement. Cory Doctrow responds:
So, to Ralph Lauren, GreenbergTraurig, and PRL Holdings, Inc: sue and be damned. Copyright law doesn't give you the right to threaten your critics for pointing out the problems with your offerings. You should know better. And every time you threaten to sue us over stuff like this, we will:
a) Reproduce the original criticism, making damned sure that all our readers get a good, long look at it, and;
b) Publish your spurious legal threat along with copious mockery, so that it becomes highly ranked in search engines where other people you threaten can find it and take heart; and
c) Offer nourishing soup and sandwiches to your models.
Big Ups to Priority Colo for refusing to cave to such and obviously unenforceable threat, and thanks Cory Doctrow for such an artful response.
UPDATE: The ongoing story unfolds here.
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