Pepe the Frog's Creator Is Sending Takedown Notices To Far-Right Sites (vice.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @12:05PM from the take-over-the-reins dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: 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. Furie originally created Pepe as a non-political character for his Boy's Club comic, but Pepe later became an internet meme and during the 2016 U.S. presidential election the alt-right movement appropriated the frog in various grotesque and hateful memes.

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So now you're going to copyright a Meme... by Noishkel · 2017-09-19 12:27 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Yeah good luck with that. Especially given that the original 'sad frog' meme has metamorphosed so man times over the years as to be completely unrecognizable. Are you going to try to claim that all carton frogs are the same now? How far does this thud-fuck think he's going to be able to take this?