October 7, 2009
And our “IP Bully of the Week” Award goes to…
Ralph Lauren — for sending DMCA take-down letters in an attempt to suppress some negative blog commentary about the photo below, e.g., comments like “Dude, her head’s bigger than her pelvis” (source).
You can read about what happened here and here.
UPDATE (2009/10/12): Ralph Lauren has issued a statement, apologizing for the poor photoshop job. We’re still waiting for an apology about their DMCA abuses.
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Are you guys on twitter?
Comment by Anonymous — October 7, 2009 @ 9:29 am
We are (@TacticalIP), but we’re just getting started (i.e., no tweets yet). In the meantime, you can follow the authors who write for this blog: Jason Fischer (@jfischer1975) and Mark Malek (@ptolawyer)
Thanks for your interest
Comment by tacticalip — October 7, 2009 @ 10:23 am
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