Eric Clapton Wins Lawsuit Against Woman Selling Bootleg CD on eBay

Guitarist Eric Clapton has efficiently sued a girl in Germany who listed a bootleg CD on eBay for roughly $11. The girl didn’t even promote the CD, however the itemizing will set her again a minimum of $2,000 in courtroom prices for copyright infringement, in response to the German information outlet DW.

Clapton, a famous racist and anti-vaxxer, sued the 55-year-old girl from Ratingen, a small German city about an hour north of Cologne, claiming the recording infringed on his copyright. The widow stated her late husband bought the CD at a division retailer in 1987, however the courtroom didn’t care whether or not it was legally bought, nor whether or not she knew it was a copyright violation to promote the CD.

The girl reportedly tried to promote the CD for simply €9.95, or roughly $11.20 U.S., in response to DW. She’s now being compelled to pay authorized charges for each herself and Clapton, which complete about €3,400 or $3,500 in U.S. {dollars}. The girl’s CD was not seized but when she tries to promote the music once more she faces as much as six months in jail and lots of of hundreds of {dollars} in fines.

The British-born guitarist is notorious for being a prick, which makes aggressive authorized motion like this pretty unstunning. Clapton went on a racist rant on stage in England in 1976 about how he wished to “Keep Britain white,” amongst different issues.

“Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs,” Clapton stated at the concert.

“Wogs” is a British slang time period for nearly anybody who isn’t thought-about white. But that wasn’t all. Clapton promoted Enoch Powell, a far-right politician, who stated that immigration brought on white folks to be “strangers in their own country.”

“Britain is becoming overcrowded, and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking Jamaicans and fucking . . . don’t belong here, we don’t want them here,” Clapton continued.

“This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. We are a white country,” Clapton stated.

Clapton ultimately apologized for the rant many years later in 2017, however he additionally spent the previous yr whining about vaccine mandates and has refused to play live shows except the unvaccinated are allowed to attend. Clapton, a multi-millionaire, even wrote a track with Van Morrison in late 2020 about how the lads had been being oppressed due to covid-19 lockdowns.

The track, titled Stand and Deliver, even likens public well being measures to slavery with inane lyrics like:

Stand and ship

You allow them to put the concern on you

Stand and ship

But not a phrase you heard was true

But if there’s nothing you may say

There could also be nothing you are able to do

Do you need to be a free man

Or do you need to be a slave?

The UK reported 87,565 new covid-19 circumstances on Thursday, the very best enhance of the whole pandemic. And it’s going to get so much worse earlier than it will get any higher. But a minimum of Clapton has stored some shitty bootleg CD off of eBay. Good work, gradual hand. The world is a a lot better place now and we will all relaxation straightforward.