Alex Jones To Pay $15,000 In Pepe The Frog Copyright Infringement Case
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, the founder of Infowars, has agreed to pay a $15,000 legal settlement to the creator of Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character appropriated by the "alt-right" that is now widely used in racist Internet memes.
Jones signed the settlement on Monday with Matt Furie, the California-based artist who created Pepe some 15 years ago. The lawsuit alleged that Jones used the character without permission as part of a promotional poster also featuring images of himself, President Trump and far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.
Last month, the judge in the lawsuit limited the potential jury award to $14,000. Monday's settlement was for that amount plus another $1,000 that Furie said he plans to donate to the amphibian conservation group Save the Frogs.
Furie's attorney, Louis Tompros, called the settlement a victory for his client, even though the suit had sought much more.
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Andrew Knight holds a sign of Pepe the Frog during a rally in Berkeley, Calif., in April 2017.
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