Good publicity for Boing Boing! I love BB.

*1sttube *news *law

Adding video to channels (1sttube, Law, News) - requested by EndAll.

Thank god for Canada! Keeping things in perspective for americans.

I presume they photoshopped to make that model look 'sexier'? She looks hideous!

I've been following this *quality story for a week now. Nice to see Maddow and Jardin discussing it with such good humour.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by notarobot.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

I like that Maddow gives a lot of respect to the blogosphere, this, FireDogLake and many others.

xeni is a man

AFAIK this blog post started the whole story.

Rachael said it, Photoshop *fail.

Adding video to channels (Fail) - requested by jimnms.

I'm glad that Hamilton gave proper credit to Photoshop Disasters.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'boingboing, philipa hamilton, xeni' to 'boingboing, philipa hamilton, xeni, blog, ralph lauren, xeni jardin, copyright, photo' - edited by Eklek

It's in Wikipedia now:

In September 2009, the Photoshop Disasters blog posted an advertisement from Polo Ralph Lauren that contained a heavily manipulated image of a female model. The post was subsequently reprinted by BoingBoing[21]. Ralph Lauren issued DMCA takedown notices to BoingBoing's ISP and Blogspot, which hosts Photoshop Disasters, claiming their use of the image infringed copyright. Blogspot complied, but BoingBoing's ISP consulted with BoingBoing and agreed that the image was fair use. As a result, BoingBoing issued a mocking rebuttal[22], using the same image again and posting the takedown notice. The rebuttal was widely reported, including on frequently viewed websites such as The Huffington Post[23] and ABC News.[24]

"DMCA" should really be in the tags since that's what's important about this story. Maybe take out the extra "xeni" if you need room.

I am starting to fall in love with Rachel

>> ^jdbates:
Thank god for Canada! Keeping things in perspective for americans.


I see what you did there...

To correct Maddow, her phrasing that "ISPs usually cave" to DMCA notices is not really accurate. The ISPs are legally required to takedown. You can immediately contest it and the ISP is supposed to put the offending material back up.

Can we get some photoshop action on that hair?

Who the hell allowed that image to be published?

>> ^jdbates:
Thank god for the USA!


I fixed it for you.