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).

Ralph Lauren Photoshop Disaster

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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Posted On
Oct 07, 2009
Posted By
Anonymous

Are you guys on twitter?

Posted On
Oct 07, 2009
Posted By
tacticalip

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 :)

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