Platinum Equity, LLC, the parent company of the Union-Tribune newspaper, sent a letter to the San Diego Reader, another local newspaper with a website edition, cautioning them against publishing a story on two lawsuits charging Platinum with workplace sexual harassment.

In June 2009, when a CNBC report publicized the two lawsuits, the Reader asked Platinum’s public relations executive, Mark Barnhill, for a comment. Platinum responded with a six-page letter sent to the editor and publisher of the Reader and two of its reporters, warning them that Platinum would file a defamation suit if the newspaper published a story suggesting that Platinum engaged in wrongdoing as alleged in the lawsuits. 

Platinum's lawyers also marked the letter "Confidential Legal Notice" and threatened legal action for "breach of such confidence and a violation of the Copyright Act" if the Reader published the letter in whole or in part. 

The Reader published no in-depth coverage of the two lawsuits, but mentioned the lawsuit in two articles. In one, the Reader commented specifically on Platinum's threat letter and its assertion of confidentiality and copyright.  The article included a copy of the letter for download. 

As of the time of writing, neither Platinum nor its lawyers have pursued any legal claims against the newspaper or individuals involved.

In October 2009, Ralph Lauren sent a DMCA takedown notice to Boing Boing's webhost, Priority Colo, alleging that Boing Boing's posting of a Ralph Lauren advertisement violated its copyright. The Ralph Lauren advertisement featured a photograph of an improbably skinny model that appeared to have been photoshopped, and Xeni Jardin's post on Boing Boing reproduced the advertisement with a critical caption: "Dude, her head's bigger than her pelvis." Priority Colo and Boing Boing refused to remove the post, citing fair use.

The advertisement originally came to Jardin's attention via another blog, Photoshop Disasters. Photoshop Disasters published the advertisement with its own critical caption: "Make her head bigger than her pelvis! Do it!" Ralph Lauren also sent a DMCA takedown notice to Blogger, Photoshop Disasters' blog host, which removed the image.  (The original post is still available through Google's cache.)  It is not clear whether Photoshop Disasters submitted a counter-notification and whether the post will be restored.

After a great deal of media attention stemming from the takedown notices, Ralph Lauren acknowledged responsibility for photoshopping the image in a statement saying, "[f]or over 42 years we have built a brand based on quality and integrity. After further investigation, we have learned that we are responsible for the poor imaging and retouching that resulted in a very distorted image of a woman's body."

After Jarkoff posted an entry about the security risks he sees with the login mechanism of the Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) website on his blog, TechMiso, he received an e-mail from the RSA Anti Fraud Command Centre.  RSA Security Inc. is  an encryption and network security company, and the RSA Anti Fraud Command Centre helps the NFCU with online fraud prevention.

The RSA email claimed that Jarkoff's post infringed on NFCU's copyright and trademark rights, and it expressed concern that Jarkoff's site could become a host of phishing attacks against NFCU's clients. The email then proceeded to ask for various kinds of information from Jarkoff, including the tar/zip file of the site's source code. After Jarkoff replied to the email, clarifying the purpose of his post and maintaining that there was no fraudulent activity involved, RSA replied that Jarkoff's post may confuse NFCU's customers and stating that NFCU had asked RSA to take down Jarkoff's blog.

A month later, Jarkoff received an email from Rackspace, his web host, regarding a trademark infringement complaint it received from RSA. Jarkoff replied to the email from Rackspace, explaining that there was no trademark infringement. Soon afterwards, Jarkoff received another email from Rackspace letting him know that RSA had requested that Rackspace disregard the shut down request.

In August 2009, photo-sharing site Flickr removed an image from Firas Alkhateeb's photostream in response to a DMCA takedown notice.  The image was a photograph of President Barack Obama from the cover of Time Magazine modified to look like Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight.  The image gained some notoriety when someone else used it to make a poster captioned "socialism." 

At first, it was unclear who sent the DMCA takedown notice because DC Comics and Time publicly stated that they had not done so.  Some investigation by Thomas Hawk, chief executive of Flickr rival Zoomr, revealed that someone named Edward Przydzial sent the DMCA takedown notice and claims to be the originator of the Obama/Joker image.  

It is not clear whether AlKhateeb has filed a DMCA counter-notification. 

After the debate sparked by Flickr's removal of the image, the company revised its policy for handling DMCA takedowns.  According to ZDNet: 

"Upon receipt of a complete NOI [notice of infringement], the US
Copyright Team will replace the image with a new static image that
bears the following copy: 'This image has been removed due to a claim
of copyright infringement,'" said Heather Champ, Flickr's director of
community, in a comment. 

According to Flickr, under the change in policy the discussion under the photo is preserved and it should be easier to reinstate a photo after a counter-notification is filed.