A vaccination-critical club around former Green Party leader Madeleine Petrovic must pay club president Sigrid Maurer 400 euros. The Vienna Commercial Court has decided this. Maurer filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement after the club commented on her “stinking finger” photo under a tweet by Maurer.
The initiative wrote in February 2023 “Hate and meanness? Who sits in a glass house…” and used Maurer’s well-known “stinking finger” photo. The politician had previously accused a fellow political candidate of hate and roguery. After she saw that the vaccine-critical “Green Association for Fundamental Rights and Freedom of Information” (GGI) had used her photo, she filed a lawsuit.
The Vienna Commercial Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff on Friday. The association around Madeleine Petrovic must now pay Maurer 400 euros, as well as the legal costs. The court reasoned that Maurer’s attitude – holding a glass with a “stink finger” – was not aggressive or hateful behavior at all, but rather an expression of his own position.
Petrovic: “Politically explosive”
This is a “rather idiosyncratic but certainly creative interpretation,” Petrovic said. She noted “numerous procedural errors” because neither she nor Maurer were summoned. “This verdict is not only legally questionable, but also politically explosive.” Justice Minister Alma Zadić is a colleague from Maurer’s party.
Because the association has filed an appeal, the verdict is not yet final.
Source: Krone
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