They ignored all my attempts to communicate. Thousands of people supported me, they called Chick Chirik, wrote comments and reviews. Chik chirik deleted all those thousands of comments, deleted all the reviews on Facebook and Google and even ignored a request on this topic from the popular site The Village. They also closed comments and the ability to mention themselves in social networks. At the same time, they continued to pay for advertising posts and PR, hold mass parties and remove all mention of the fact of theft.
In the beginning, lawyers offered me their services on pro-bono terms. In the field of street art for Ukrainians this was a precedent. Therefore, a whole team of lawyers, not familiar, but united for this case, was formed.
Chik-chirik has been ignoring us for 2 months, and then went on the offensive. First, they wrote a post on their Instagram about how “the artist is trying to gather an army to shut them down and take their bird away from them” with closed comments on her page.
Then they began to register a trademark with the image of my bird.
We filed a response claim that this trademark violates my rights and at the same time prepared a lawsuit.
Our lawsuit was ready, but the case did not have time to reach the court, because the war began.
During this conflict, many artists, photographers and musicians told me about their history of copyright infringement. It turned out that this is a very painful topic for Ukraine. I began to understand this issue, such a deplorable situation occurred because the creators did not know about their rights, and in society globally there is no understanding of the value of intellectual labor.
In the fall of 2021, several lectures “On Bird’s Rights” (fixed expression denoting “live a precarious existence”) were published on the problem of copyright in different cities of Ukraine.
