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At The Daily Beast, Alex Jones ordered to pay Furie.
Fringe conspiracy-theory outlet InfoWars settled a lawsuit Monday over their use of cartoon character "Pepe the Frog," paying $15,000 to Pepe's creator and promising never to use the cartoon again.
Pepe—a morose, previously apolitical character created by cartoonist Matt Furie—was co-opted by far-right groups and Trump supporters during the 2016 election. Furie has since tried to regain control over the character's image, pursuing legal action against a series of websites.
The InfoWars lawsuit, filed last year, centered on a poster sold by InfoWars featuring Pepe alongside Trumpworld personalities like Roger Stone, InfoWars founder Alex Jones, and pundits "Diamond & Silk."
Before settling, InfoWars tried a novel legal strategy of suggesting, without evidence, that Furie had actually based Pepe on an Argentinian amphibian cartoon character named "El Sapo Pepe." But on Tuesday, InfoWars agreed to destroy all remaining copies of the poster, and pay back the $14,000 it made from the poster sales—along with an additional $1,000.
It's the principle, not the money.
Furie is donating the extra $1,000 to amphibian conservation group Save the Frogs.
"It's a charity dedicated to frog preservation," Tompros said. "Real frogs, not cartoon frogs."
Also at: NPR and The New York Times.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 11 2019, @01:53PM (2 children)
The same retards that buy other meme merchandise. Trump running for president was a lucrative time for people selling shirts, hats, flags, posters, etc and it still continues on. There's always someone out there that's gullible, lonely, or just wants a funny shirt.
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Tuesday June 11 2019, @02:07PM
Or an astute investor in rare collectibles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday June 11 2019, @07:53PM
Somewhere in my closet I have a shirt with the DeCSS code on the back. I bought it because the *AA's wanted it outlawed, and I wanted to make sure it remained and to also make a point about free speech. Next to it is a hat with "/." on it, and a coffee mug that says, "All Your Base Are Belong To Us." I bought the first because I love Slashdot, and the second because it was a funny meme. On top of those rests a t-shirt that says "Soylentnews" on it. Last but not least is a t-shirt that says "Froggie Mouth Cave," which is the first stop-motion animation my daughter and her friend made; and I set it up through Cafe Press to pretend like I had happened on their movie by accident and really loved it so I bought the t-shirt. It was meant to encourage their creative efforts.
Sometimes we agree with a message or enjoy a joke and want to do a little more to support it, so merchandise suits that.
Washington DC delenda est.