Man gets 2 years in prison for claiming he created Kung Fu Panda - Sensationalist Headlines

[URL="http://www.avclub.com/article/man-gets-2-years-prison-claiming-he-created-kung-f-254752"]http://www.avclub.com/article/man-gets-2-years-prison-claiming-he-created-kung-f-254752[/URL] [QUOTE]According to Deadline, a man named Jamye Gordon has been sentenced to two years in prison and fined $3 million for trying to defraud DreamWorks with a phony copyright infringement scheme. This all goes back to 2008, when Gordon saw a trailer for Kung Fu Panda and decided to alter a story he had previously written called Panda Power so it would seem more like the movie. He also revised some drawings and renamed his work Kung Fu Panda Power, and after suing DreamWorks for copyright infringement, he proposed that he’d be willing to settle if the studio would give him $12 million. DreamWorks wisely declined, the case went to court, and Gordon was convicted of fraud and perjury back in November. [/QUOTE]

Fuck patent trolls.

Oooooh, the schadenfreude is fierce in this one.

I'm the real creator of Kung Fu Panda!

[QUOTE=J!NX;52219693]I'm the real creator of Kung Fu Panda![/QUOTE] Lock him up, boys.

I'm actually the one who *looks at scribbled mess on hand* created Karate Bear.

Garry Newman stole my work

[QUOTE=The bird Man;52219724]Garry Newman stole my work[/QUOTE] Get outta here JB, this is Newman turf.

Had to check if he was the same guy who did the Zootopia claim. It was a different guy. [url]http://deadline.com/2017/03/zootopia-lawsuit-disney-copyright-infringement-gary-goldman-1202047892/[/url]

I [I]AM[/I] Kung Fu Panda.

best part of the whole thing was omitted from the snippet, but I still get such a kick out of this [quote]and created fake backdated sketches to further support his made-up claims. Deadline says “the full nature of Gordon’s scheme came to light” when DreamWorks found out that some of his panda drawings were traced from a Lion King coloring book,[/quote] [t]http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/kungfupanda_fbi_gordon_b.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=dai;52219814]best part of the whole thing was omitted from the snippet, but I still get such a kick out of this [t]http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/kungfupanda_fbi_gordon_b.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Wow.

I didn't know it was a scheme I thought he was just nuts

[QUOTE=dai;52219814]best part of the whole thing was omitted from the snippet, but I still get such a kick out of this [t]http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/kungfupanda_fbi_gordon_b.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] what the fuck is a panda doing in the lion king

[QUOTE=Mr.Moustachio;52220277]what the fuck is a panda doing in the lion king[/QUOTE] history of children's extended merchandising from the late 80's to 00's: "kids won't know the difference, pad the content". add a few cool new things that weren't in the movie, and BAM, extended universe, the kids love it! wouldn't be a surprise if that vaguely timon-like character was elsewhere on the same page, or at least in the same book.

Don't fuck with the mouse

[QUOTE=gameplaya89;52219722]I'm actually the one who *looks at scribbled mess on hand* created Karate Bear.[/QUOTE] No! I created Tae Kwon Do Ferret!

[QUOTE]he proposed that he’d be willing to settle if the studio would give him [b]$12 million.[/b] [/QUOTE]What's wrong with this guy? :v:

[QUOTE=EskillV2;52219669]Fuck patent trolls.[/QUOTE] what?!? you do realize patents and trademarks are different, and that he was committing fraud rather than patent trolling. this is almost completely different.

Shit, you can get actual prison time for this? I'd only expect a big, hefty fine.

[QUOTE=_Axel;52227104]Shit, you can get actual prison time for this? I'd only expect a big, hefty fine.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.juraforum.de/gesetze/stgb/153-falsche-uneidliche-aussage"]In Germany you get three months to five years for it[/URL][URL="https://archive.is/qPgL4"].[/URL] [I]In theory[/I] they can turn it into a monetary fine ([URL="http://www.juraforum.de/forum/t/wie-hoch-strafe-bei-falschaussage.102397/"]at least three months of income then[/URL], apparently), but that doesn't seem to happen a lot. That's without oath though. [URL="http://www.juraforum.de/gesetze/stgb/154-meineid"]Perjury has a minimum sentence of a year attached, or six months to five years in less grave cases[/URL][URL="https://archive.is/qwxHI"].[/URL]

[QUOTE=Tamschi;52227208][URL="http://www.juraforum.de/gesetze/stgb/153-falsche-uneidliche-aussage"]In Germany you get three months to five years for it[/URL][URL="https://archive.is/qPgL4"].[/URL] [I]In theory[/I] they can turn it into a monetary fine ([URL="http://www.juraforum.de/forum/t/wie-hoch-strafe-bei-falschaussage.102397/"]at least three months of income then[/URL], apparently), but that doesn't seem to happen a lot. That's without oath though. [URL="http://www.juraforum.de/gesetze/stgb/154-meineid"]Perjury has a minimum sentence of a year attached, or six months to five years in less grave cases[/URL][URL="https://archive.is/qwxHI"].[/URL][/QUOTE] I suppose that's if you're convicted of deliberately lying? Witness testimonies are not generally very reliable for example, not because of bad faith but simply because human memory is rather imprecise in general.

[QUOTE=_Axel;52227218]I suppose that's if you're convicted of deliberately lying? Witness testimonies are not generally very reliable for example, not because of bad faith but simply because human memory is rather imprecise in general.[/QUOTE] Yes, it's only for deliberate lies. There was a further explanation on the site regarding [I]to which extent[/I] it has to be (proven to be (?)) deliberate, but I didn't understand the legal terms involved in the explanation.

[QUOTE=Saxon;52220951]Don't fuck with the mouse[/QUOTE] Kung Fu Panda is a dreamworks film

[QUOTE=VenomousBeetle;52227603]Kung Fu Panda is a dreamworks film[/QUOTE] Stay out of the ogre's swamp

I send the swarm I send the horde

I can't imagine getting embroiled in a lie that lasts almost a decade. Like how confident was he that'd it'd win? As soon as Dreamworks would've called my bluff I'd flee, [i]no[/i] amount of forgery is gonna help you with a claim as bold as that.

His big mistake was going after a GOOD DreamWorks film. If he had said he made SharkTale they probably would have preferred to pay him off so they could claim that they weren't the ones who made it.

[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;52227948]His big mistake was going after a GOOD DreamWorks film. If he had said he made SharkTale they probably would have preferred to pay him off so they could claim that they weren't the ones who made it.[/QUOTE] It wouldn't be this simple lol [editline]14th May 2017[/editline] A lot more things happen with plagiarism than simply paying the other guys

[QUOTE=VenomousBeetle;52227955]It wouldn't be this simple lol [editline]14th May 2017[/editline] A lot more things happen with plagiarism than simply paying the other guys[/QUOTE] you're wrong I have a law degree and the 17th amendment says dreamworks can sell off their shitty IP's by paying off fraudulent hacks