Playboy sues site for posting ‘every centerfold ever’
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Published
Nov. 9, 2017
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Nov. 10, 2017, 10:26 a.m. ET
Playboy is fuming over a website that it says is publishing its centerfolds in an eyeball-grabbing slide show without permission.
Boingboing, a website that advocates for free content across the internet, had been running the lusty photos under the heading “Every Playboy Playmate Centerfold Ever,” according to a copyright infringement suit filed Nov. 7 by Playboy Enterprises in federal court in California.
The suit names Happy Mutants LLC, parent company of Boingboing, as a defendant.
Playboy Enterprises is demanding $150,000 per infringement — or nearly $72 million for the 447 centerfolds that run from April 1960 until January 2016.
Boingboing had not returned a call seeking comment by press time.