Ironic Prince Lawsuit

Lawyers for Prince's record label have served copyright notices to three of his fansites to take down Prince-related images. For someone who just released his latest album for free as a newspaper insert, this seems a little odd. A company working for the lawyers in tracking down the copyrighted images on the web makes it clear they are not working for Prince, but the public relations damage is already done. Fans believe Prince is suing them for even tattooing his androgynous symbol, and posting pictures of the tattoos on the websites' forums. Even if it's only the record label protecting its intellectual property, which already looks bad for going after what amounts to free advertising of its product, The Artist (heh) has been painted with the same ugly brush. The only positive interpretation I can think of for the cease and desist letters, is that one or two images or logos were used in some inappropriate manner, but the letters were drafted in overbroad language. Prince has not commented on this matter in print, so I don't know what he's thinking about all this.