Techno Viking Lawsuit!

[Cainad (dec.)]

Has anyone really been far even as decided to sue even go want to do lawsuit more copyright?


SERIOUS QUESTION U GUISE

[P3nT4gR4m]

Has anyone really been far even as decided to sue even go want to do lawsuit more copyright?


SERIOUS QUESTION U GUISE

I'd agree. Deadly serious question. And it deserves a deadly serious answer. And that was mine.

[Junkenstein]

Update:

Filmmaker Matthias Fritsch shot a video that became a viral hit, known as "Technoviking". For the last three years, he's been battling the protagonist over "personality rights". He's now raising funds on Indiegogo to make a documentary about the ordeal.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/27/technoviking

"I tried to find a compromise, but they didn't even move a tiny step," he says.

After three years of wrangling, a decision was reached in court: Fritsch was forced to agree to only use the video if he manipulates the images in such a way that he can't be identified. Despite this, there's a sense that the horse has very much bolted. Fritsch might have been gagged, but there are hundreds of other artists who have made derivative works that will remain online. "It's too late. That's the whole absurdity of the trial."

In addition to censoring the video, Fritsch must pay the plaintiff €8,000 -- the vast majority of the money he made from the video. That's on top of the €7,000 in legal bills. He says that the trial will bankrupt him. "I haven't had the bill yet. The final letter came on 10 June," he says, despondently.

"In my artistic practice I don't focus too much on commercially marketing my content. I'm interested in free culture and I'm always financially on the edge. €15,000 is what I need for two years of living. It puts me in a very difficult position."

[Salty]

Yeah fuck bankers and the governments who regulate them, Techno Viking is a symbol of Righteousness and Justice against the guy who lives on €7,500 per annum.

Well done, Techno Viking, well done.

[Doktor Howl]

Yeah fuck bankers and the governments who regulate them, Techno Viking is a symbol of Righteousness and Justice against the guy who lives on €7,500 per annum.

Well done, Techno Viking, well done.

Yeah.  Hero ruined.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That is so unfortunate.

Especially given that Technoviking could have easily used the viral video's fame to lauch his own series of creative projects, and probably made a lot more money.

[Doktor Howl]

That is so unfortunate.

Especially given that Technoviking could have easily used the viral video's fame to lauch his own series of creative projects, and probably made a lot more money.

This sort of reminds me of the end of Hunter S Thompson's Hell's Angels.

[LMNO]

But with more lawyers.

[Doktor Howl]

But with more lawyers.

Yes, Sonny Barger and his mob just kicked Thompson's ass.  They didn't feel the need for lawyers.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

This is sad and dumb.