"Streisand Effect in effect," designer says after their legal response went viral.

The creator of a “FUCK the LAPD” shirt sold out not only his entire stock of that shirt but also sold out many of his other designs after the Los Angeles Police Department Foundation made an intellectual property threat against them that claimed they owned the letters ‘LAPD.’

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    DMCA is only copyright so it had to be a copyright claim. You could probably argue that this claim was in bad faith, but that’s a lot of work to actually prove.

      • myusernameis@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        No seriously, read it, it’s fucking hilarious.

        I’m almost afraid to ask you to explain how you might have formed such a belief, but feel free to take a shot at it.

        In a footnote on page 3

        • Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          Mike Dunford, Cola’s lawyer, is fantastic. He has a Twitch channel (questauthority) if you want to hear more from him.