Judge refuses to toss suit over Pepe the Frog poster sales
(World News USA)

A federal judge will let a jury decide whether conspiracy theorist Alex Jones` Infowars website had a legal right to sell a poster featuring the image of Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character that became hijacked by far-right extremists. U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald refused Thursday to throw out a copyright infringement lawsuit that Pepe`s creator, California-based artist Matt Furie, filed against Infowars over its poster sales. Lawyers for Furie and Infowars both said they were pleased by the ruling, which clears...