$18 million lawsuit over memes

Yeah this is a shame. Poor kid, this is bullying to the next level. Hope he gets at least one of those 6 million dollar bills.

Somehow I doubt they will get any money.

Nobody has the right to not have their feelings hurt. And I doubt the editing of the picture qualifies as any form of libel or copyright infringement.

This is hardly the first time this type of suit was filed in court. Remember the 'Star Wars Kid'? He filed suit too.

I don't think anything will come of it, just due to the nature of memes and how fast they spread virally.

For example, a meme images could possibly have hundreds of thousands of images out there, each with a different saying. These images are made by thousands of people and hosted on thousands of different domains. Which person out of the thousands do you file the suit against?

Also, wasn't the image taken from the public domain?

18 million bucks?! WTF... They're exaggerating the case.

But the same thing could happen to you if you're like most IMers who simply steal images from Google pictures by typing a relevant keyword to then use it on their blog post...

$18M.
They must be metally ill aswell.

WOW that is a lot of money..only time will tell what happens in this case on how much they get if anything at all.

Stories like this are just a waste of everyone's time and our legal system. Honestly. No judge is going to give this guy any money because it then sets a precedent for everyone else to go and start claiming ridiculous amounts of money if their photos are shared online. It's a new world we live in. If you don't want images of yourself shared online then don't post them online. Just a lame money grab me thinks.

Thanks for sharing though.

It's not a shame.

It's funny.

Welcome to the Internet.

All of you people reading this have laughed at fat jokes, blonde jokes, sex jokes, racist jokes, most of you have probably even told them.

Most of you have probably made memes or shared them.

I dont think its got anything to do with that kid or his family. Who ever originally spawned that meme would have used an image of any kid.

Don't try to get the moral high ground here people.

Who hasn't laughed at the meme of the little chubby African kid dancing with phrases such as "Its Friday Lets Party..." ?

So... what now? that's racist is it? is that making fun of homeless people is it...? No.

Its having a laugh for the sake of having a laugh and you know what humans laugh at most? Other people and at other peoples expense. Its comedy 101.

Where do we go next? not making cat memes, because its cruelty to animals, or because the animals feelings may have been hurt..

Its a simple joke not intended to hurt anyone.

I HAD a disabled older half brother. Then he died.

His condition was not funny at all. I would have wanted to murder anyone that made fun of him.

However I grew up making jokes about disabled people, why? Because its human to laugh and it's human to make people laugh using whatever material you have.

Although medical condition, sex, race etc should not be made fun of, the fact is that your never going to stop it and some of it is actually funny.

The family has not got a hope in hell in getting any money.

If I saw a picture of me online with a meme wrapped around it, i'm not going to lie, i'd probably be upset at first... but then I'd get over it.... and then i'd probably try to monetize it myself

The fact is that when most people make memes they will go to Google images, grab an image from anywhere and ka-blamo the meme is made. I think you will find this image was never posted on a meme generator website as a template.

Is the condition funny, no.

Are memes funny, yes.

The family need to get over it or alternatively need to think about any time they ever laughed at someone else s expense.

Well this is internet, and they won't get any money, even 1 $
If anyone will pay for some pictures they "took" "illegaly" from google, then ...