InfoWars settles copyright lawsuit over usage of the Pepe the Frog meme:
Alex Jones’s right-wing website agreed to pay Furie $15,000 to resolve the copyright lawsuit just four weeks short of the pair’s jury trial date.
Jones, however, was determined to fight back, claiming that Pepe was fair use and Furie waived copyright protection by expressing unconcern for the frog’s appropriation in years past., the character was being hijacked across the internet long before Furie pursued copyright protection in 2017. Even when the character began taking on a life of its own, the creator famously expressed a lack of concern over its misappropriation.
Given the creator’s delay in registering copyright, the issue of abandonment, whereby an intellectual property owner relinquishes enforcement of copyright, was examined under the context of Furie’s nonchalance over Pepe’s usage prior to its alt-right exploitation. The judge ruled that Furie would not be eligible to receive statutory damages or attorneys’ fees as a result of the delay.
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