The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn't want you to see!
Last month, Xeni blogged about the photoshop disaster that is this Ralph
Lauren advertisement, in which a model's proportions appear to have been
altered to give her an impossibly skinny body ("Dude, her head's bigger
than her pelvis"). Naturally, Xeni reproduced the ad in question. This
is classic fair use: a reproduction "for purposes such as criticism,
comment, news reporting," etc.
However, Ralph Lauren's marketing arm and its law firm don't see it that
way. According to them, this is an "infringing image," 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 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.
This one doesn't.
So, instead of responding to their legal threat by suppressing our
criticism of their marketing images, we're gonna mock them. Hence this post.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/06/the-criticism-that-r.html
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