Archive for the ‘Copyright’ Category
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Bullies haven’t been cool since Biff Tannen graced our presence, and even he wasn’t the brightest crayon in the box. North Face has proven they’re not quite the cool guys in school like many may have believed them to be. When 18-year-old Jimmy Winkelmann created a parody brand, “South Butt,” North Face ...
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
It's kind of a sad story. University of Miami law professor Donald Marvin Jones was arrested in 2007 for soliciting a prostitute. He denied the claims, and the charges were later dropped. The law blog AboveTheLaw had written a series of posts about the story and included his faculty photo. ...
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Ralph Lauren has a new ad out with an impossibly skinny model in it. As Boing-Boing put it, "Dude, her head's bigger than her pelvis".
The ad was highlighted on PhotoshopDisasters, as an example of (we really hope) bad Photoshopping. However, Ralph Lauren filed a (bogus) DMCA takedown notice on the ...
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
I hate companies like this and I'm glad that the internet can show everyone how stupid and arrogant they are. Improv Everywhere is a group based in New York that does funny improv stunts around the city, such as sending a bunch of people into Best Buy in blue golf ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Is the MPAA this stupid, or does it just look that way? Once again, they're suing a website for copyright infringement and the result is that the site is getting a ton more traffic.
The site in question this time is Pullmylink.com, which links to sites that have various movies and ...
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