Skinny Ralph Lauren model and the DMCA
p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- What you see on the right isn’t a typically malnourished model.
Nope.
Rather, according to Ralph Lauren’s marketing arm and its law firm, it’s an “infringing image,” says Boingboing, and “they thoughtfully took the time to send a DMCA takedown notice to our awesome ISP, Canada’s Priority Colo”.
One of the things that “makes Priority Colo so awesome,” the Post says, “is that they don’t automatically act on DMCA takedowns. Instead, they pass them on to us and we talk about whether they pass the giggle-test.”
The company is based in Hamilton, Ontario — Ontario, Canada, that is — and unless president Obushma has been able to prevail upon Canadian prime minister George W. Harper to the extent of his predecessor, there’s absolutely no reason why it should pay attention to a piece of purely American crap. Sorry, legislation.
ANYway, the pic apparently originally appeared on Photoshop Disasters which, says BB, seems to given in to Mr Lauren and taken the image down.
Well, No. It didn’t, actually.
“I didn’t take the post down,” says Cosmos7 on Photoshop Disasters under dumb-ass lawyers, adding:
“Blogspot automatically takes down posts in a DMCA. (In their defence, most ISPs do the same thing.)”
(Cheers, Marc)
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