New copyright piracy.

November 25, 2003

Here’s a fad of which I was not aware: companies suing others for copyright infringement, despite the fact that the plantiff doesn’t own the property in question. Heidi draws our attention to the SCO copyright complaint against Linux (good summary here), where the SCO group insists Linux improperly copied material the SCO stole.

Meanwhile, Glen reminds us that Disney sues people infringing on copyrights Disney doesn’t own. Yeah, that’s convoluted. For example, Disney is suing Denmark’s “Gummi-Tarzan”:http://www.detdansketeater.dk/0304/gummitarzan.htm, despite the fact that the copyright on the Tarzan character is owned by the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate.

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