TV Academy Sues Over Emmy Image in Covid ‘Awards’ YouTube Video

Sept. 8, 2020, 3:43 PM UTC

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences sued Crowdsource the Truth, which it called a platform for conspiracy theories, for allegedly infringing its copyrights and trademarks by using an image of the Emmy Award statuette in a video for its “Crony Awards,” according to a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court.

Crowdsource the Truth unlawfully altered an image of the statuette to appear to be holding the coronavirus for a YouTube video that “honored countries that refused to lock down and/or minimized the COVID-19 pandemic,” the Sept. 4 complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of ...

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