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.

Comments

Remember the rule of "fair use"

[bons]

"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.

50 Millions dollars for a comic nanotech suit???

[imr]

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!!!!

This is funny...

[sheldon]

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! :)