Mike from Techdirt is right, corporate lawyers don’t have much sense of humor — at least the ones from FedEx, which are miffed over the creative use of their boxes as furniture at FedExFurniture.com.

A software engineer trying to save some money ended up building a bunch of furniture for his new apartment using sturdy FedEx boxes. If anything, it was a nice little advertisement for the quality of FedEx boxes. FedEx lawyers, on the other hand, saw otherwise. They sent him a takedown notice, somehow believing that the site infringed on the DMCA.

Gotta love the FedEx computer station and bed! The creator of this furniture explains what happened on his blog:

With encouragement from several friends, I put up a website with some pictures of my furniture, showing that it was “OK to be ghetto” and how you can solve a problem creatively when you’re in a bind.

Apparently FedEx did not like the message, as I was sent a cease and desist letter during the first business day after the site was started. It was strange how the letter did not specifically state what laws we violated, so I was suspicious and called around. It seemed like I was being bullied around, without any real legal standing. Jennifer Granick found out about what was going on, and offered to help me.

There are worse things that could be done with FedEx boxes than making furniture out of them. A DMCA complaint over this … really?

Did this post make you go hmm?

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