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MIT Steals Comic Book Character
Merle writes "According to Horizon Comics MIT has stolen images from their comic Radix in a proposal to the US Army as an attempt to gain funds to foot a project in creating a better, stronger type of soldier for tomorrow. Upon inspection of the images themselves, it can be easily seen that minor image alteration and a bit of photoshop magic for the background, MIT did a classic comic book "swipe" and took the credit for it." Well, imitation/flattery/blah blah blah, but man. Thats just strange.
"Any portion of any creation can be removed and redistributed in a creation of your own unless the original creation is released under an approved open source license."
This allows Slashdot readers to make themselves distributors for other people's music, software, video, etc, but makes sure Microsoft will never distribute their GPLed code for something as tacky as profit.
No Zen is good zen
the perfect soldier has a man's head and breasts! i would do a double take if i ever saw that on the battle field.
okay, i'm lying. if i was on the battle field i'd be too busy ducking to care weither it was a breasted man shooting at me or not.
bah. start over
Do they buy ex-soviet 1970 tanks, paint a US flag on them, and say they are the tanks of the future?
We need to be told!
Mod the parent up, and here's the translation:
"Dear Mr. Comic Artist,
Please please pleeeeeease don't sue me. By the way, that illustration helped us get a $50 million grant from the US military, so we've got deeper pockets than you.
Insincerely yours,
Ned"
Except that if you had read the article, you would know that Radix is no longer being produced, ever since they found out about MIT's blantant rip and lodged a lawsuit.
So if an unpublished comic can gain readership, then you sir are correct...
50 millions to become invisible and jump 20 feet high ???
And they refused my original work of a red and blue suit with a big yellow S which would have given invincibility and the ability to fly to all u.s. soldiers for a mere one hundred million dollars!!!!
According to /. it's ok to steal music and movies, but when you steal a comic book image it's grounds for the death penalty! :)