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Damon Dash Ordered to Pay $300K in Copyright Claim, Calls Lawyer ‘Doo-Doo’ Breath

Damon Dash

*Damon Dash has been ordered to pay $300,000 for copyright infringement, a Manhattan federal judge has ruled.

In a decision handed down on Monday, the judge told Dash that he had no right to market the 2017 movie “Mafietta” and was “apparently incapable of exercising ordinary civility” during the January trial over ownership of the work, New York Daily News reports. 

The judge said Dash “repeatedly disrupted” trial testimony and  “loudly” accused a witness of “lying,” and at one point he said an attorney’s breath smelled like “doo-doo,” U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rackoff wrote in his ruling.

“The court finds Dash’s testimony to be unworthy of belief,” the judge wrote.

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Damon Dash

According to a press release, “Dash and Poppington LLC have been ordered to pay author, creator, and owner of “Mafietta” E.W. Brooks the sum of $300,000.00 for their illegal and unauthorized streaming of her film on Dame Dash Studios.”

“Damon Dash claims to help African-American women while stealing from me and my family. He stole my dream and took my ‘Mafietta’ brand as his own without consent or any credit to me, its creator. In my opinion, Damon Dash has shown himself to be a walking, talking contradiction of everything he preaches.  He preyed on my desire to produce films and abused almost everyone involved in its production. However, I refuse to have my name added to Dash’s list of victims. Instead, I will continue to write and create content despite Damon’s efforts to capitalize on my project and stifle my dream,” said Brooks, a female African-American writer and part of a military family presently serving our country in South Korea.

“Damon Dash has proved to be what he claims he hates… a Culture Vulture,” said attorney Christopher Brown.

“Damon Dash took African-American created content, used it for his benefit and left the owner of the film carrying the bag. Damon Dash paid for nothing but claimed to own the film. Its pure fantasy and the Court saw through his lies. We will now engage in the process of collecting the judgment of $300,000.00,” Brown added. 

“This is round one. I have other clients that have filed claims against Damon Dash about the manner in which he does business and engages in personal matters” he said.

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