[2ndDivisionVet]

Seriously?

[Oshkalaboomboom]

I’d like to see how he manages to put the Genie back into the bottle. Impossible but that won’t stop him from trying to go after a few deep-pocketed people to see if he can make a buck or 2.

[Grimmy]

Ruh roh!

I wonder how /pol/’s gonna react.

[MacMattico]

Shouldn’t they be suing Hillary for calling the frog a symbol of White Supremacy?

[Flick Lives]

I smell Soros money funding this lawsuit.

[Fresh Wind]

Furie should be grateful for all the free advertising he has gotten for what would otherwise be a worthless, obscure, and completely forgettable comic book.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Everything is a symbol of white supremacy today, even a frog. Even old Motown music acts like Diana Ross and the Supremacists.

[Mount Athos]

you know i’ve been on this conservative site for so many years and i still don’t know what the hell the alt right is

[Steve Van Doorn]

He seemed like a reasonable person to. Very sad.

[cdcdawg]

There’s a chance that this could backfire. In fact, there’s not much else that could happen.

[paulcissa]

The Pepe' meme has exploded over at Reddit and this nobody without a copyright is in for a big surprise. The 4-chan guys/girls (there's still only two genders) had basically adopted Pepe' as their mascot. They're not going to roll over easy.

This will be entertaining for months.

[Caipirabob]

I love "The_Donald" subreddit at Reddit. I can't figure out what's going on half the time due to the format of the posts but those folks have some fighting spirit.

[SoFloFreeper]

Hasn’t this guy ever heard of extreme parody? The purple dinosaur, the blue dog....all parody, man.

[mewzilla]

Guys, say hello to Constitution Pepe

Nice birdie!

[nclaurel]

The artist allowed his trademark for Pepe the Frog, which was filed in 2015, to lapse last year. The status of the trademark is listed as “Abandoned-Failure To Respond Or Late Response” under Justia. While this does not invalidate Furie’s copyright claim (trademarks and copyrights are not the same thing), modifications of Pepe may be covered under fair use.

Seems he has questionable justification. Hope he get charged with filing a nuisance case.

[Fresh Wind]

Do an image search on “Pepe Boys Club”, and see some of the material that Furie created involving Pepe.

You will find the most boring childish bathroom humor that you can imagine. I won’t post any of it here for obvious reasons.

This is the sort of “intellectual property” that Furie is suddenly interested in protecting.

[MortMan]

The popular caricature — a green frog— was a popular meme on the Internet before becoming a figure endorsed by millennial Trump supporters during the 2016 U.S. election.

If he never asserted his rights over other users, he would appear to have lost his assertion rights against the so-called "alt-right".

It is unclear how much of a legal case Furie has in forcing people who post Pepe memes to comply to his demands. The artist allowed his trademark for Pepe the Frog, which was filed in 2015, to lapse last year. The status of the trademark is listed as “Abandoned-Failure To Respond Or Late Response” under Justia. While this does not invalidate Furie’s copyright claim (trademarks and copyrights are not the same thing), modifications of Pepe may be covered under fair use.

So, it's typical bluster - punishment by process. As nclaurel noted, this seems ripe for being labeled a nuisance suit.

For the record, I am not a lawyer, and therefore could be wildly incorrect.

[Moonman62]

If it weren’t for the “alt-right” nobody ever would have heard of his frog.

[proud American in Canada]

Due to its popularity among the right, Hillary Clinton’s campaign condemned the character as a “white supremacist” symbol.

OMG. The left has gone insane.

[RegulatorCountry]

Some libertarian legal defense group needs to take this on and argue that the trademark and any intellectual property was abandoned (which it was, he shut down publication with no indication of any intent to continue). Also, the image of the frog as well as the name Pepe have become household names like Kleenex did, therefore further diluting any claim he might have had. Too bad, Mr. Furie, you didn’t maintain your rights to this property therefore you’ve lost control of it. That’s trademark law for you. Be more vigilant next time rather than running away in a snit.

[DocRock]

You can copyright an animal?