Via adland, this Boston Globe report about a New York agency, Warren Kremer Paino Advertising, that is suing a blogger - Lance Dutson - who posts at Maine Web Report.
Why?
Because Lance critiqued one of Warren's ad campaigns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- The suit claims that Dutson's blog contains defamatory statements that hurt the ad agency's reputation and its business. The agency also says it owns the copyright to certain images Dutson uses in his blog and is asking for $150,000 in damages for each work the agency said Dutson infringed.
OMG: Unless the agency in question has a death wish and/or is suffering from Mad Cow Disease (Denny Crane), this is beyond embarrassingly desperate.
A - you're going to (and have already) incurred the wrath of the ad blogosphere
B - no-one wants to do business with a sniveling whinger and cry-baby (not to mention bully)
C - Freedom of speech...ever heard of it?
D - instead of blaming others for your problems, why not do a better job?
Of course when I Googled the agency, their web address never came up (surprise, surprise) What did come up however, was Maine Web Report a bunch of times.
Look at the bright side of life....now you've heard of Warren Kremer Paino Advertising
