Playboy Entertainment Group Inc. will have to rewrite its copyright infringement suit against the owner of online news site BoingBoing if it intends to keep the suit alive, a California federal judge ruled Wednesday in a case over a link to every centerfold the men’s magazine published.

U.S. District Judge Fernando M. Olguin dismissed the case and gave Playboy until Feb. 26 to draft a new version of its suit that closes some holes in the case, including whether it had a copyright claim against BoingBoing owner Happy Mutants LLC over just a link to someone else’s copy of Playboy’s famous unfolding photos of naked women, according to the decision.

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BoingBoing is represented by Mark A. Lemley and Joseph C. Gratz of Durie Tangri LLP, and Corynne McSherry and Daniel Nazer of Electronic Frontier Foundation.