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Hats off to the bloggers at Boing Boing

October 08th, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized

We wanted to commend the bloggers at Boing Boing for their principled stance against Ralph Lauren. Turns out they had re- posted a blog pointing to Photoshop Disaster. In it their was a re-touched image of a model that was so shockingly thin that someone had posted the comment, “Dude, her head’s bigger than her pelvis.”

In response RL had sent a letter threatening suit for copyright infringement.

The response to the letter from Boing Boing is classic:
“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.”

The image and post can be found here

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