{"id":50,"date":"2010-11-12T14:48:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T21:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipmetrics.net\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2010-11-12T14:48:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T21:48:07","slug":"peta-infringing-film-makers-intellectual-property-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/economics\/economic-damages\/peta-infringing-film-makers-intellectual-property-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"PETA infringing film maker&#8217;s intellectual property rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 12px; color: #595858;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px;\">Victor Schonfeld has threatened to sue\u00a0animal rights group PETA\u00a0over the copyright infringement his copyrights in the\u00a0film \u2018The Animals Film\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 16px;\">The film maker&#8217;s UK legal team has reportedly sent a letter to PETA informing them of his intention to sue them for the equivalent of US$760,000. \u00a0The dispute arises from the claim that the animal rights group used footage from \u2018The Animals Film\u2019 in various internet videos without Schonfeld&#8217;s permission or a licence. \u00a0Of interest is that the damages claimed are derived from a reasonable royalty calculation representing the hypothetical royalty fee the parties would have agreed upon on the eve of the infringement (see <a title=\"Copyright Infringement Damages\" href=\"http:\/\/ipmetrics.net\/copyright.html\" target=\"_blank\">our explanation in terms of US copyright law<\/a>), had they sought a legal way of using the film.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/solicitors.contactlaw.co.uk\/intellectual-property-law\/peta-face-legal-action-for-infringing-intellectual-property-rights-99487.html\" target=\"_blank\">Solicitors UK Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Schonfeld has threatened to sue\u00a0animal rights group PETA\u00a0over the copyright infringement his copyrights in the\u00a0film \u2018The Animals Film\u2019. The film maker&#8217;s UK legal team has reportedly sent a letter to PETA informing them of his intention to sue them for the equivalent of US$760,000. \u00a0The dispute arises from the claim that the animal rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,11,14,19],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2xROl-O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}