Jerry Media Facing Federal Lawsuit Over Text Meme
Meme Law could be coming to a federal court near you with a new case against Jerry Media. The company, facing backlash lately from the comedy community for its aggregation and use of jokes it did not originate to fuel its extremely popular F–kJerry social media accounts, is being sued in New York by someone who did create a joke that allegedly made its way into a marketing campaign for a Jerry Media client. The company charges upward of $25,000 per social post for clients and so functions primarily as a marketing/advertising company. Olorunfemi Coker, an influencer based in Nigeria, claims that Jerry Media, along with its owner and founder Elliot Tebele, violated his copyright to a meme that he created representing an iPhone text exchange with a person who was drunk and thought to get an Uber home from his own house. Not only did @FuckJerry in January post Coker’s meme, but Coker claims that it tagged JaJa, a tequila company it was doing marketing for. Coker claims that this was part of Jerry Media’s “online search and copy campaign” and that it “published and exploited” the content without his authorization. Coker’s original meme (left) and F–kJerry’s allegedly uncredited repost, tagged with a
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