Watch Tower Can’t Identify Defendant in ‘Dubtown’ Copyright Suit, Court Declines to Help.... LEGO JWs

[Patiently waiting for Truth]

https://torrentfreak.com/watch-tower-cant-identify-defendant-in-dubtown-copyright-suit-court-declines-to-help-210723/

The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society has run into problems in its copyright lawsuit against the pseudonymous creator of the animation series 'Dubtown'. The videos, which portray a fictional Jehovah's Witness town depicted in Lego, are created by 'Kevin McFree', but Watch Tower doesn't know who he is or where he lives, and nobody wants to help, including the court.

Lego JWs ? 

The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, wants to put an end to the activities of a defendant known only as ‘Kevin McFree’.  ‘McFree’ (which is presumably not his real name) is the creator of the ‘Dubtown’ series of stop-motion Lego animations that take place in a fictitious Jehovah’s Witness town.

Who is McFree? Watch Tower Has No Idea

In a request for conference filed with the Court, Watch Tower says McFree “obtained purloined copies” of then-published videos and placed clips of those works in his video posted to YouTube. This amounts to copyright infringement and warrants a permanent injunction, Watch Tower says, but the road to that currently remains uncertain.  According to Watch Tower, it cannot ascertain the real identity of McFree. “The true identity and physical address of Defendant are not presently known to Plaintiff. The Infringing Video and YouTube account associated therewith identify Defendant only by the pseudonym ‘Kevin McFree’ and do not provide any physical address,” Watch Tower writes.  According to the religious group, it has made numerous attempts to discover McFree’s personal details. Referencing the 2018 DMCA subpoena application to YouTube/Google that requested access to McFree’s real name, address, telephone number and other personal information, Watch Tower notes that the process didn’t lead anywhere useful.

Sorry, I think this is so funny because my wife makes stop motion videos of Pippa dolls and uploads them to Youtube. 

 

[Pudgy]

I have no idea how the Society can claim "copyright infringement", as I have seen all the "DubTown"  animated videos on YouTube, and it is clear to me that it is blistering satire .....  which is considered "fair use" by the U.S. Copyright laws.

And furthermore, what are they going to do when they find out who the REAL "Dubtown" author is?

If I was them, I would drop it, otherwise it may be like the auto maker Henry Ford had to suffer when he sued a newspaper for libel, for calling him an ignorant dolt ( or words to that effect ...), and when they got to Court it was proven that he WAS, and the case was dismissed.

The perfect defense for slander and libel accusations is if you are telling the TRUTH.

That's what I saw, with cringing consternation, when I saw the "Dubtown" Videos.