video was referenced in the 2022 Disney Channel Original Series, Hamster & Gretel. Lawsuit On June 21, 2011, Schmidt filed a lawsuit in Seattle Federal Court against Threadless for their 2009 line of Three Keyboard Cat Moon T-shirts, a send up of the then popular Three Wolf Moon meme, due to copyright infringement. Threadless counter-claimed by stating that Schmidt's copyright claim was not approved until September 22, 2010, more than a year after the production of the T-shirts, and that Schmidt had lost his copyright when he asked people to submit videos that paid tribute to Fatso. , this lawsuit has been settled. In May 2013, Schmidt and Christopher Torres, the creator of Nyan Cat, jointly sued 5th Cell and Warner Bros. for copyright infringement and trademark infringement over the appearance of these characters without permission in the Scribblenauts series of video games. Torres and Schmidt have both registered copyrights on their characters and have pending trademark applications on the names. Meme manager Ben Clark manages them and Grumpy Cat, Scumbag Steve and Ridiculously Photogenic Guy. The suit was settled in September 2013, with Torres and Schmidt being paid for the use of the characters. See also Cat organ Cats and the Internet List of individual cats List of internet phenomena Grumpy Cat References External links Charlie Schmidt's site A collection of videos featuring Keyboard Cat The Keyboard Cat Church 1984 films 1987 animal deaths 2007 films 2007 YouTube videos 2018 animal deaths American Internet celebrities Animals on the Internet Internet memes about cats Individual cats Internet memes introduced in 2007 Viral videos