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Pepe the Frog’s Creator Goes Legally Nuclear Against the Alt-Right
« on: September 19, 2017, 03:15:36 pm »
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Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie has made good on his threat to "aggressively enforce his intellectual property."

The artist's lawyers have taken legal action against the alt-right. They have served cease and desist orders to several alt-right personalities and websites including Richard Spencer, Mike Cernovich, and the r/the_Donald subreddit. In addition, they have issued Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown requests to Reddit and Amazon, notifying them that use of Pepe by the alt-right on their platforms is copyright infringement. The message is to the alt-right is clear—stop using Pepe the Frog or prepare for legal consequences.....

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8x8gaa/pepe-the-frogs-creator-lawsuits-dmca-matt-furie-alt-right
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Re: Pepe the Frog’s Creator Goes Legally Nuclear Against the Alt-Right
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Re: Pepe the Frog’s Creator Goes Legally Nuclear Against the Alt-Right
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2017, 03:17:13 pm »
Hooboy. This could get ugly.
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Re: Pepe the Frog’s Creator Goes Legally Nuclear Against the Alt-Right
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2017, 08:27:46 pm »
Excellent
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Re: Pepe the Frog’s Creator Goes Legally Nuclear Against the Alt-Right
« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2017, 08:37:55 pm »
Suing a nameless faceless entity isn't very smart
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« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2017, 08:38:45 pm »
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Suing a nameless faceless entity isn't very smart

What he is doing is going after the hosting sites first with DMCA notices to remove the content. Not specifically the anonymous members.
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Re: Pepe the Frog’s Creator Goes Legally Nuclear Against the Alt-Right
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2017, 01:47:17 am »
There is a website out there now called "alt-right", "altright" or however, it looked rather prejudicial. If this is what the "alt-right" presents to the public, it is not going to go over well. I didn't spend more than a minute there, that was enough.
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Re: Pepe the Frog’s Creator Goes Legally Nuclear Against the Alt-Right
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2017, 01:51:29 am »
Quote from: TomSea on September 20, 2017, 01:47:17 am
There is a website out there now called "alt-right", "altright" or however, it looked rather prejudicial. If this is what the "alt-right" presents to the public, it is not going to go over well. I didn't spend more than a minute there, that was enough.

You probably stumbled on Richard Spencer's site.

I don't know who this cartoonist is, but I don't blame him for wanting to take his intellectual property back from the likes of Spencer.
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