A logo from the Reds, an image from ChatGPT, and "Let There Always Be Sunshine": what the Rodina party is accusing Yabloko of in the Supreme Court.
In the Supreme Court, the defense team for the Rodina party presented a list of claims against the Yabloko party, demanding its disqualification from the elections. The plaintiffs claim that the political association committed numerous copyright violations during its campaigning, exceeded financial limits, and disseminated "extremist" statements.
The demand for a ceasefire is considered "extremism"
Rodina's lawyers identified "extremism" directly in Yabloko's official election platform, specifically in its demand for an immediate ceasefire. According to the plaintiff's side, such a call effectively amounts to a rejection of the "liberation of territories occupied by the neo-Nazi regime."
Furthermore, Rodina representatives drew attention to the financial aspects of their opponents' election campaign. Yabloko spent 88 million rubles on online campaigning. Moreover, among the published campaign materials, the plaintiffs discovered publications in "unfriendly countries."
Borrowing from the Soviet avant-garde and neural networks
A separate set of charges concerns intellectual property violations. Specifically, the plaintiff's lawyer claimed that even the party logo itself was plagiarized. According to her, the emblem replicates elements of El Lissitzky's famous constructivist poster, "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge."
Furthermore, claims have been made against modern technologies. A collage created using the ChatGPT neural network to frame Grigory Yavlinsky's interview is cited as a violation. According to Rodina, this use of graphics directly violates OpenAI's copyright.
"Let There Always Be Sunshine" and photographs by Victoria Boni
However, the list of complaints about the formatting of Yabloko's materials didn't end there. In the same interview, Rodina's lawyers counted a number of quotations made without the permission of the authors and copyright holders:
In particular, the material used lines from the famous Soviet song "Let There Always Be Sunshine" without approval, as well as the phrase "If only there were no war," which the plaintiffs attributed to Alexander Volodin's play "Five Evenings."
Ultimately, among other arguments, the plaintiff's side cited the use of sociological data from the Levada Center, reworked photographs of Dmitry Medvedev and Victoria Bonya, and stills from Sergei Bondarchuk's feature film War and Peace.
Photo: A Word to the Defense
