PEPE THE FROG CREATOR GETS ALT-RIGHT KIDS' BOOK PULLED FROM SALE

BY TOM PORTER ON 8/29/17 AT 12:11 PM

The creator of Pepe the Frog—a cartoon character hijacked as a mascot by white nationalists—has successfully forced the withdrawal of an alt-right children’s book that depicted Pepe as an Islamophobe.

Lawyers acting for Matt Furie, creator of the character, reached a settlement with Eric Hauser, author of The Adventures of Pepe and Pede, barring further sales of the book and compelling Hauser to donate all profits from the title to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an advocacy group for American Muslims, reported Motherboard Monday.

Furie’s lawyers, from the firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, contacted Hauser after the controversial book made headlines.

In the book the Pepe character, echoing President Trump’s rhetoric, sets out to make his farm “great again,” and battles a bearded alligator villain called Alkah, regarded as a reference to Allah, the Muslim name for God.

Lawyer Louis Tompros told Motherboard Hauser admitted copyright infringement. "There's no question it was copyright infringement. [We] were able to negotiate settlement over the course of just a few days." He added that the book’s $1,521.54 profits will be handed over to the CAIR.

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