George Riddick — the One-Man RIAA of Clip Art 175
An anonymous reader writes "Pages at ireport.com and extortionletterinfo.com have been documenting and researching the activities of George P. Riddick III, previously known for his lawsuits against IMSI and Xoom at the turn of the century. In 2007 he issued a largely-ignored press release claiming the majority of clip art online infringes a copyright and has ranted about how Microsoft and Google are stealing from him. In recent months, he's apparently made a business model of going after web site operators who were using clip art they believed to be legally licensed or public domain, telling them they're infringing clip art collections he hasn't offered commercially in years and making outrageous settlement demands. He seems to have tested the waters on this some years back, but emboldened by the passage of the PRO-IP act, he's gone aggro with it. A few dodgy anonyblogs had popped up to 'out' him as a copyright abuser, but these recent ireport.com and extortionletterinfo.com reports go much deeper in documenting and researching Riddick's recent one-man campaign to be the RIAA of clip art."
I've patented a method of trademarking a copyright (Score:3, Funny)
I'll make millions!
And they called it (Score:5, Funny)
"Pages at ireport.com and extortionletterinfo.com have been documenting and researching the activities of George P. Riddick III
they call the document "the chronicles of riddick"
*bad-dum-dah*
I'll be here all week
How to call it (Score:3, Funny)
Let's call it The chronic LES (Lawsuit Egocentric Syndrome) of Riddick
Re:Riddick.... (Score:2, Funny)
And the Internet would be a better place if we get RID of this (insert last four letters of his name here).
Re:Growing network of victims! (Score:5, Funny)
the majority of clip art online infringes a copyright
Notice, too, that he doesn't state outright that it infringes his copyright, only implies it.
I wonder if he has a copyright on a single black pixel, and is trying to count everything else as a derivative work......
Taking credit for clip-art, and not clippy? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Taking credit for clip-art, and not clippy? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Growing network of victims! (Score:4, Funny)
Quick! Somebody copyright a single white pixel and save all the greyscale clipart at least!
Alternatively, don't use any black pixels, just really really, really, really, really dark blue ones!
Re:And they called it (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ahh, fair use (Score:5, Funny)
Your clever attempt at deflecting the pointing finger has failed.
*(of course it exists!)
Re:Ahh, fair use (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What's the problem? (Score:4, Funny)
There is also a 2 car analogy minimum.
Re:And they called it (Score:3, Funny)
Same way as usual... (Score:4, Funny)
Give one person with high HP all the health powerups and defense boosters, get that person to tank, get a healer to stand nearby to assist, and everyone else wails on him, duh.