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.’
This, and the dumbass lawyer representing the LAPF sent a DMCA takedown, explicitly calling it copyright infringement, which is most certainly is not
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/14/when-lol-no-is-not-enough-lawyer-explains-why-bogus-takedown-over-fuck-the-lapd-shirt-should-result-in-paying-legal-fees/
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.
Read the 4 page document
No seriously, read it, it’s fucking hilarious.
In a footnote on page 3
Mike Dunford, Cola’s lawyer, is fantastic. He has a Twitch channel (questauthority) if you want to hear more from him.
That was a great read. Thank you.
Great read, thanks for sharing.
FYI there’s a link in that article that goes to the initial, and much more brief, walkthrough of the original letter, and it’s comically short response.