cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49220518
They may be fictional characters, but they are voiced by real people, the court says.
They look stupid, this is just corpo music for Koreans no wonder the courts protected them.
Anything that gets in the way of scumbags making money.
I can’t speak to Korean law, but this seems like a real stupid take. Actors are different from their characters. You can’t damage a character because they aren’t real.
In a lot of places you can be sued for defaming a company brand, though. This seems similar to that.
You can be sued for defamation regardless of the target, as long as you damaged their reputation with false statements. It’s a lot easier to prove damages against a company than a regular person though.
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This is in line with korean anti-harassment laws. Seems draconian to us but is entirely consistent with what koreans have been living with for over a decade now.
Fuck kpoop.
Shut the fuck up
So if they are voiced by AI or silent, we can defamate their picture as much as we want?
For now, for now.
In July 2024, the defendant targeted Plave in a series of posts - some containing profanity. Among them were comments that the people behind the avatars “could be ugly in real life” and gave off a “typical Korean man vibe”, Korea Times reported.
Unless the guy said much worse things that weren’t reported, it seems like South Korean defamation laws are draconian.
He’s getting in the way of these people making money, so I can see useful idiots chomping at the bit to punish him.
anyone know what the claim is to even count as defamation?. That to me seems like what should be the crux.
IE if the claim was “X’s voice clearly shows he’s dying of cancer.” I could see that as defamation. On the other hand “X is summoning demons” that clearly would be fan-fiction.
I agree that the comments in question seem like nothing to count as defamation, but actual defamation of virtual bands should count as defamation IMO. They’re as fictional as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillaz is—every character is one-to-one to their real-life voice actors. Though I guess in that case you might be defaming the voice actor behind the character instead.
Darth Vader sucks egg salad through a hose to eat
Sounds like they represent real people is the reason
K-poop sounds like darth Vader sucking shit-salad through a garden hose
Rename S.Korea to Nintendonia. They deserve that.
