'Kevin McFree' recently fended off a Watch Tower DMCA subpoena after a judge found that his critical animations were protected under fair use. However, Watch Tower is aggressively pursuing a separate copyright lawsuit, one that deals with exactly the same issues. The big development is that McFree's plight has been taken on by the formidable Public Citizen Litigation Group.
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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.
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.
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An individual who created a series of stop-motion Lego animations is being sued by Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group. Kevin McFree was first targeted in 2018 via a DMCA subpoena but with that legal process stalled, Watch Tower has now filed a full-blown copyright infringement lawsuit.
The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, is known to go to extreme lengths to clamp down on those believed to be undermining the faith.
While much of this takes place in the background, Watch Tower’s practices can become public when the group takes legal action against people alleged to have breached its intellectual property rights.