and 5th Cell Media over the use of the images in the video game "Scribblenauts." In 2013, Torres and the creator of the Keyboard Cat meme successfully sued Warner Bros. This is not the first time that Torres and Lashes have faced copyright issues. See also: How Reddit Users Dug Up Dirt On (And Destroyed) Third-Party Chat Tool 'Carrot' As with any infringement of my clients property, we are taking this very seriously." It's just disrespectful, and against the law. "The band may see their blatant infringement as a 'punk rock' move to reclaim some glory, or that stealing from the web is somehow only sticking it to the man, but with Nyan Cat and Doge they are ripping off an independent artist and independent photographer who rely on proper licensing of their works in order to continue creating," Lashes told me over email. Torres and his manager Lashes have reached out to Sum 41 and its people to no avail. I also reached out to the band and the music video director Marc Klasfeld and have heard nothing back. If they didn't see any actual value in Nyan Cat, then they wouldn't have used it in the first place." "At the end of the day, I'm just like any other lone indie artist and it sucks when I see my art making other people a lot of money without permission. "There are procedures and agreements for when someone wants to use my art commercially, and Sum 41/Hopeless Records skipped all of the formalities that other brands have highly sought Nyan Cat out for," Torres told me over Facebook chat. The man making sure meme creators like Torres are protected is manager Ben Lashes, who represents Blake Boston (" Scumbag Steve") and notably, Grumpy Cat, which has earned "a New York Times bestseller, a sponsorship deal with Friskies, a Cheerios commercial, a Lifetime movie, her own coffee, Grumpy Cat stuffed animals and appearances at the MTV Movie Awards, WWE Raw, Sesame Street, SXSW," the AV Club reported in 2014. Torres created the meme in 2011 and has been working ever since to protect his copyright and prevent companies from making money off his creation without his permission. The creator of the Nyan Cat is Chris Torres who learned about the video after it was uploaded to YouTube on June 28.
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