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His Galaxy Wolf Art Kept Getting Ripped Off. So He Sued—and Bought a Home
When his galaxy wolf illustration was stolen by countless online stores, artist Jonas Jödicke decided to fight back.
It was a painting, made in Photoshop, of a wolf’s head crowned in stars, with one side the shade of the summer sky at dusk and the other pale blue, the kind of thing you’d see on a fantasy-loving goth kid’s T-shirt. In 2020, Jödicke caught a lucky break of sorts when Aaron Carter—pop singer and brother of the Backstreet Boys’ Nick—used one of the artist’s other pieces, titled Brotherhood, to promote his clothing line on Twitter(now X). Edwin James achieved this for Jödicke through its team of overseas researchers who, according to the firm’s client relationship manager, Sarah Vaughan-Jordan, scour the internet for evidence of counterfeiting before handing everything over to lawyers working in multiple jurisdictions worldwide.
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