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

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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You can't selectively apply the law

[guruevi]

Him and his lawyers basically shot themselves in the foot with that expression. You either enforce your copyright or you don't. Selecting a group of people regardless of definition, means you're not enforcing your copyright consistently and you are going to lose it.

Re:That still doesn't matter

[computational super]

No, no, all Trump supporters are literal Nazis. All 63 million of them. That's why America has adopted the swastika as its national flag since Trump's election and brownshirts roam the streets virtually unopposed.