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.’
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.