The issue of who controls a small independent media has left Los Angeles for more than a year.

This week, the conflict that hit Los Angeles exploded into the legal system, and the lawsuit accused it of copyright and trademark infringement, defamation and even theft of trade secrets.

One corner is a group of famous independent journalists, including Castle of Serris and Ben Camacho, who have built a lot of public attention to cover local law enforcement hard.

On the other side is the ground game Los Angeles, a shaky advocacy group whose rise is inseparable from the left-hand shift of the city's political power structure.

Ground Games Los Angeles founded in 2017, counting the nonprofit community journalism program as “and Los Angeles Progressives.” The publication flourished during the pandemic as public health restrictions and protests against police reforms brought a new focus on city governments. Knock La and his extremely online journalists have helped people ignite activism and have been through popular voter guides and live coverage of public meetings.

In a particularly fertile moment in local leftist politics, ground games in Los Angeles soared.

Meghan Choi, co-founder and executive director of Ground Games, led the rebellious city council bid for Nithya Raman and Eunisses Hernandez, helping them cancel the incumbents. The group also rallyed during a successful 2022 campaign by Congressman Hugo Soto-Martínez and city controller Kenneth Mejia.

But there is a deep rift between the organization’s leadership and some journalists who have become synonymous with knocking on Los Angeles’ work.

Camacho and Castle alleged that ground games in Los Angeles continue to profit from unauthorized situations, even after blocking their access to the scene, and seeking nearly $5 million in damages. LA LA believes that journalists essentially try to hijack the news media, use their trademark names, steal their list of confidential emails, and distort themselves as legitimate leaders of the channels.

Castle and Camacho filed federal copyright infringement lawsuits Tuesday against Ground Games and the Liberty Mountain Foundation and the California Endowment Foundation and the California Endowment Foundation and the California Endowment Foundation and the California Endowment Foundation, two leading charities that provide financial support.

Castle and Camacho said in the lawsuit that ground games and nonprofits “maliciously, systematically” exploited their copyrighted news work “cross multiple platforms.”

Regarding the gang within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Castle’s 15 parts of “violent tradition” are “violent traditions.” The violent law enforcement group's claim is all the rage when the Castle earned honors and strengthened scrutiny for the sheriff's scrutiny.

Camacho was known for obtaining photos, names and serial numbers of 9,000 LAPD officials, and then published them, which were subsequently targeted at two lawsuits from the city of Los Angeles. Hydee Feldstein Soto identified 23 images and articles he said ground games violated.

The two tracked the infringer until March 2024, when the Castle led the effort to separate Los Angeles from the ground. According to the lawsuit, the move was prompted by reasons including “editorial over-editorship,” “requires for unpaid labor,” “racial discrimination” and “lack of support for Mr. Camacho.”

Within weeks, Camacho and the Castle believed they were knocked down by Lokra's email and other systems, "deliberate hostile and retaliatory actions." The move, they said, captives their journalism work and allows ground games to "profit from unauthorized use." As independent journalists, both of them asserted that they retained the copyright and never “enforced any work agreement” or transferred their intellectual property.

The two accused the Ground Game of the stolen work to improve their fundraising and body shape. The lawsuit claims that California donations and Liberty Hill “major contributions to infringement” through the promotion of grants and social media. Both organizations declined to comment.

Castle and Camacho are seeking a ban on the use of their copyrighted works and "total of not less than $4,650,000" of damages.

"This lawsuit is about protecting my years of investigative work that is often developed independently under difficult and dangerous conditions," Castle said in a statement. "No one should be allowed to do your work, honor your work, and use it for fundraising without consent. It's not solidarity - it's exploitation."

On Wednesday, the ground game fought back with force, filed a federal lawsuit and exhibition covering 119 pages, using Camacho, Castle and two others as "plans" to capture Lak La's Ins subsidies and register it as its own company, and illegally using its trademark for its own resignation site.

Ground Game's suit also focused on the spring of 2024, when Castle (the editor who was then managed by LA) and photography editor Camacho and editor-in-chief Katja Schatte asked to separate from the ground game and form its own new entity.

When the Ground Game’s board of directors rejected the proposal, the three “started intervening” with Knock La, and the parent company closed their knock-on email account shortly after.

The quarrel spilled quickly Enter the public opinion. Black castle Defendant Ground Game Los Angeles Racismand Social Media “Tool Kit” - including conversation points, hashtags and draft posts - claims that nonprofits took the news media "hostage". Other contributors joined the castle and recorded a video that accused the ground game of "killing local news" and entice the public to stand with them.

LA Ground Games claimed that around the same time, the branch group acquired the organization’s confidential mailing list and sent multiple emails without permission to “denote themselves as the legitimate successor of knocking on the door” and “falsely stated” that they separated from the broader group to allocating donations.

According to the lawsuit, the branch team used a contact list to “promote, promote and grow…their personal and personal interests”, calling such actions “theft” of trade secrets.

Ground Games LA also accused the hijacking offshoot of LA's social media accounts and attempted to lock the organization into it, "including removing administrator emails on Knock La's Facebook account by changing two-factor authentication for Knock La's Instagram account, and removing multiple YouTube videos from Knock La's YouTube account."

Their lawsuit aims to prevent branch groups from using mailing lists or knocking trademarks and requires them to restore access to “block social media accounts.”

La La continues to publish new materials, and its website remains famous on the Sheriff’s Department. But its Instagram and Twitter accounts have been pitch black for months.

Neither party responded directly to the allegations, but both parties regretted the escalation of the lawsuit.

“Our people work very hard and do everything they can to stop it from getting to this place,” Choi, executive director of La Game Game, said of the duel lawsuit. “Basically, it’s just someone trying to hijack our projects and who we are.”

Camacho emphasized the sacrifice of “time, risk and dedication” in a statement by his attorney, Almuhtada Smith, which was dedicated to his photography and writing – and now inspired his battle with the castle.

"We do not want to take legal action, but our efforts to address this private settlement have been overlooked," Camacho said in the statement. "No creators, especially those creators of a historic community - others should not be expected to profit from their work without permission or credibility."