UPDATE: You’ll find more great commentary on this subject at Jezebel, and Lauren has apparently owned up.  The much more disturbing DMCA issue still remains a question, however.

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Apparently Ralph Lauren is suffering some very well deserved flak over a ridiculously photoshopped model and his ensuing attempts to legally silence those critical of the work (though I’m still wondering why no one has yet to voice objection to Lauren’s apparent need to slim down a model who is, after all, already model slim).

Lauren is apparently losing his DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) fight, thankfully.  Myself being an artist whose designs, articles and original ideas are often stolen by those who are apparently so creatively challenged they are incapable of formulating  synapses of their very own, I have little respect for anyone who would file a DMCA simply because he doesn’t like well-deserved criticism, a method of fair use that, unlike copyright infringement, certainly IS well within the law.  Lauren’s DMCA doesn’t have any legal standing as far as I can see, and only serves to make him look even more ridiculous than the model with the “head bigger than her pelvis” already did.

I’m thinkin’ it might be time to clean out my closet and send my Lauren stuff to a vintage clothing boutique.  Eyup.

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