Submitted 1 week ago by Fallstar@mander.xyz to australia@aussie.zone
The problem for Curtis was one item she sold: a T-shirt of a frowning purple and yellow cat. She said the sale had been made just before the US lawsuit was launched against her. The T-shirt had sat unsold for years on her site.
Conspiracy theory: the lawyers purchased that shirt so they could launch a stronger lawsuit against her.
Wouldn’t surprise me in the least
It’s actually common practice. See if someone will do the thing they’re offering to do. Offering it is a weak case. Doing it makes the case a slam dunk
haha wow, “intellectual property” is a scam
Show the fucking shirt.
Kate Beaton on BlueSky: “These guys took their famous catchphrase from my comic, but okay.”
ogmios@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
This is why copyright laws are a joke to the public. Corporations can infringe with wanton abandon and pay pennies on the dollar as just a cost of doing business. Random nobody makes a simple mistake and gets raked over the coals for ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND times what she actually made.
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
By this logic, what does AI owe? Quadrillions? More than every currency that exists combined?
ogmios@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
How can you call that logic? Clearly, as she must pay $24m for a copyright claim, then those corporations ought to also pay around $24m for their legal obligations.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Yeah. I’d love to see what the courts have to say about everyone’s personal photos and art or writing being scraped for ai.
x00z@lemmy.world 1 week ago
“Damages”
dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 week ago
“Default judgement”, meaning nobody turned up to plead their case in whatever court and jurisdiction this was in.
So this woman sold 1 shirt, someone else sold 275,000, someone else sold 1200 coffee mugs, and so on and so forth until Grumpy Cat Enterprises™ gets the shits and goes to court with a case against multiple plaintiffs. Then in the absence of any defense all the alleged guilty parties get slapped with a default USD100K.
Which means very fucking little if the judgement is in East Texas and you’re in South East Asia as it’s going to be pretty tough to collect, but it might mean something if you live in Australia.
Being a civil matter, it’s pretty unlikely to go any further than being a note in a file somewhere, I’m not even sure if this could get on to Australian credit reports.
But the single sale of a shirt just before all this happened sounds extremely suspicious, like a fishing expedition to get enough people to make it worthwhile to go to court.