Creator of Frog Meme Is Suing Infowars 🐸 🐸 🐸

164  2018-03-08 by HodorTheDoorHolder

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Pepe the frog, the once-innocent cartoon that was appropriated as a mascot of the alt-right, is at the center of a new legal battle. Matt Furie, the character's creator, is suing Infowars, the media company helmed by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. In the lawsuit filed Monday, Furie alleges copyright infringement

from a stylized poster sold on the Infowars website. The $29.95 poster features a depiction of Pepe alongside other MAGA "heroes" drawn by artist Jon Allen, including Donald Trump, Roger Stone, Milo Yiannopoulos, Ann Coulter and Jones himself. "The establishment wants this taken down,"

the description of the poster reads. "Instead, celebrate the historic victory and frame this conversation starter in your home!'' According to the civil complaint, "Furie did not authorize the use of the Pepe image or character in this poster, and does not approve of the association of Pepe with Alex Jones

or any of the other figures shown in this poster, or the 'MAGA' slogan." In an audio statement published on the Infowars YouTube channel, Jones calls the lawsuit "frivolous" and part of a larger attempt by media outlets to make Infowars "public enemy number one." "We did not create the posters, that are protected

speech, that are transformative," Jones says, stating the use of the frog in an item for sale "is 100% protected by the courts, protected by the First Amendment, protected by fair use." Furie has tried desperately to rescue his laid-back frog from the swamp of alt-right and neo-Nazi troll patois, even going

as far as "killing" the character in a 2017 cartoon. However, like the Hydra (both Lernaean and Marvel-esque), the beheading of the chief Pepe has only resulted in more spawn, as both the cartoon and general frog imagery live on in alt-right and white nationalist circles.

Even Gab, a "free speech social network" that serves as a safe space for such folks, features a frog in its logo. Furie's lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and a permanent injunction against any further copyright infringements regarding his beleaguered creation.

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talk about turning the frogs gay

Fascists, frogs, and furies.

The real drama will be in where he has to donate the impending settlement.

A legal team representing Matt Furie, the cartoonist, said that the book, titled “The Adventures of Pepe and Pede,” “espoused racist, Islamophobic and hate-filled themes, included allusions to the alt-right movement

As part of a legal settlement, Mr. Hauser must donate his profits from the publication of his book to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an advocacy group for Muslims.

is it even medically possible to be this cuckt

he could not humiliate them in a more beautiful way

Insha'Allah

It isn't the straight people that will suffer when the will of Allah is imposed.

then what are you so worried about

I am worried because imposing a foreign, non-Western ideology on the West is certain to be result in mass horror and the loss of all that is good in the world

in spite of the fact that Islam has a really good perspective towards homos, obviously.

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the loss of all that is good in the world

not straight people

alright i guess that checks out

im not alex jones, but i would be very uncomfortable if i was ordered to donate to cair, i wouldnt mind giving to a muslim chairty, but cair are actual terrorist sympathizers.

I'm hoping he switches it up this time and makes him donate to the crisis actors or something.

a gun control interest group

He wasn't ordered to do it, he agreed to do it as part of a settlement.

Except Infowars can afford to fight a lawsuit much easier than some random independent author.

I don't think there is a laches defense to copyright infringement, so Furie very well might win. This is in contrast to his trademark filing, which he only did long after Pepe became a public icon of freedom from tyrannical leftism, because he is a bitch.

It is hilarious that Furie wants to donate the $29.95 to the known terrorist Muslim group CAIR. What a fag.

You make some very interesting and intellectual points. I agree.

I thougt you were joking but you post in mde so I'm not sure 🤔

You assume wrong.

Then keep yourself safe srsposter

The assumptions made based on the other subs I post in about whether or not it's serious is peak redditor retardation. It's not serious, of course - and that's clearly a bad thing.

Surething, seriousposter

Don't cut yourself in that edge, Mr seriousposter.

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I like the acid throwing.

tyrannical leftism

LEFTOIDS STRIKE AGAIN!!!

It sure is fun controlling the media and universities, eh comrade?

Where did u go bby?

spend the proceeds on a bottle of acid to throw in his own face.

hey remember when this turned out to be the opposite of what you’re trying to allude to?

Yeah guys, remember that one time that was notable because it was the opposite of how it usually is?

nah that goes for most of em actually

and everyone was like “it’s those damn muslim immigants”

Yeah, everyone expects dog bite stories to involve the dig biting the man, for some reason.

it would be like that if the dog overwhelmingly turned out to be an ugly anglo when the mugshot came out four days later

No, it is only notable when the man bites the dog, or the human attacks the Muslim, instead of the other way round.

Except for my bull

Fair.

This will only make Pepe stronger.

Imagine giving this much of shit about a cartoon animal. Are you a furry or something?

No, he's a... umm... I was gonna say scaly, but I guess frogs don't have scales. He's a whatever frogs have on the outside of them.

Frogs have skin made of epithelium cells.

More like pepethelium cells lmao

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He's a skinny?

he’s a skinny

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Imagine having a strong political position lol

This but unironically.

"A liberal is a man too open-minded to take his own side."

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The Pepe thing here might have more traction though. Also when you think about it, Alex Jones is going through a lot (removal from youtube, custody issues, now copyright lawsuit...). Up until now, what we saw of hiw was when he was holding it all together. So I can't imagine what a meltdown of his might look like.

So I can't imagine what a meltdown of his might look like.

Where do you think it would rate on this meltdown scale:

Keith Olbermann ....................................... Glenn Beck?

Olberman

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Glenn Beck had a meltdown?

the beginning of it was when he was fired from cnn, then he was hired by foxnews, had his own hour long show.. over his tenure there, he was getting more and more psychotic and eventually fox fired him then he really seemed to lose it.

I really didn't pay much to the drama that ensued save for laughing whenever I heard bits and pieces of it.

then, during the 2016 election he was first pro-trump, then changed to being pro-hillary, after trump won he changed back to being a libertarian and hating trump.

I think he still has a talk show on a.m. radio, every once and a while on past road trips I'd find his show.. he sounded more unhinged than limbaugh, if that's even possible.

limbaugh

I recently checked out limbaugh because people kept going over the years that hes "right wing nutjob"

None of his points sound crazy, other than constantly fellatioing trump 24/7

If Limbaugh doesn't sound totally nuts, or if you see no problem with spending an entire 3hr radio broadcast enthusiastically fellating the limp cock of an orange dumbfuck, the problem isn't with us or our cslibrstioms

Limbaugh is usually right, though.

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None of his points sound crazy

Hes not alex jones tier, not even close

He suggested that the deep state is responsible for misleading bush about wmd in iraq tho.

He said hurricane warnings are a liberal hoax, compared Obama to Hitler and Stalin and....

He is the dude who said for over a decade that we need to invade “x” country, pushed the war in Iraq endlessly and then a few months ago said he was against it.

Dude is dangerous and he said crazy shit like I mentioned above. Unless you think hurricane warnings are a liberal hoax...

Gonna need context for all of this...

dude almost everyone in the US wanted the wars in ME for no fucking reason. Glad we have the internet today to dissent against blatant propaganda shit today

Oh man, no. I work with my ultra-conservative republican uncle and he listens to Limbaugh religiously. The guy has gone completely off of his fucking rocker recently, like conspiratard level insanity. Beck seemed downright reasonable by comparison.

Beck has never been reasonable in comparison to literally anybody.

glenn beck never said that hurricanes were invented by liberals to sell bottles of water at wal-mart. limbaugh has.

Well, you said it on the internet so I believe you.

It's going to be gold. Tbh I still don't buy the Alex is nuts thing. I can only assume he intends to try and crowd fund his defense or something because even to a internetlolsuit expert like my self fairuse and stealing an image which you directly sell for a profit is clear cut. Infact you could argue that it's commercial copyright infringement.. which in theory could be actually criminal rather than just civil.

Please God or Xenu or whatever... Let Alex Jones be sent to jail and go actual crazy.

Didn't he say during the custody case that his entire show was bullshit to move he wasn't crazy?

I think. Something like that was featured on /r/Drama, but I didn't check the transcripts.

You do realize none of this stuff was actually removed from youtube and was just him lieing?

Is he lying or legit crazy?

A lot of both

Now that I think about it, those don't sound incompatible at all. If anything, I'd expect a crazy person to lie even more.

Remember that time where he ""killed"" Pepe?

That sure worked out

Frogs are tenacious, timeless creatures

Emma Stone for example is also immune to the ravages of time

If time can't ravage her i volunteer to do its job.

Time is a lily pad.

Not even close to transformative. Seems like a solid claim.

It upsets me that people turned pepe political, now I cant use him to meme :(

Feels bad man.

That Matt guy needs to move on with his life.

He will once he wins the lawsuit

He needs to com to Daddy.

Fair use

Lol no. You can’t just yell fair use, Michael.

I would just say trans-formative work. But I could give shit one about either of the parties

How about if I get transie surg then sculpt Senior Frog? Thats prety fair

did you have a stroke

Does anyone have contact info for Mr. Furie? If so please PM me.

Even Gab, a "free speech social network" that serves as a safe space for such folks, features a frog in its logo.

CNN using "safe space" as an insult for a platform because it doesn't ban people the author dislikes is really something. It's not even an editorial, this is the news. It feels like mainstream media used to at least take on the appearance of objectivity, not read like an /r/politics commentator who got to write on a bigger platform.

All American political news reads like something written by a petty teenage girl.

To be fair, it's actually a safe space.

Even Gab, a "free speech social network" that serves as a safe space for such folks, features a frog in its logo.

huh

so the cringeworthy leftist attempts at using antileftist memes against their opponents has reached cnn too

guess its just a matter of time until maddow calls drumpf a triggered snowflake

you know “safe space” started out as a leftist meme, right?

i swear u people can’t remember morr than 3 months back

Furie doesn’t have the financial wherewithal to sue Infowars.. I think the ADL might be the ones funding this anti-Pepe drive, cos up until 2016 Furie was pretty blasé about the Pepe meme and all it’s variations.

Well, it's either a Jewish plot or maybe some shit occurred in 2016 that made Furie change his mind on it. Rly makes u think.

Trump? Nah, he's apolitical. He said "politics are for dorks".

/2016/09

Honestly, after Peter Thiel BTFO Gawker i suspect there's gonna be a wave of similar suits backed by interest groups.

I hope it goes to court this time and that the judge bitches him out for wasting everyone's time pretending he has a trademark.

So does that mean Mcdonald's is going to sue matt for all of his infringement (he has some pretty creepy hamburgler fan art on deviantart that is very erotic.)

What a loser