George Riddick — the One-Man RIAA of Clip Art

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."

Comments

I've patented a method of trademarking a copyright

[thomasdz]

I'll make millions!

And they called it

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

"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

Re:And they called it

[matang]

the whole thing is riddickulous.

Re:And they called it

[MegaMahr]

As a representative of Universal Pictures, a member in good standing with the MPAA, and owner of the copyright and trademark for the motion picture "The Chronicles of Riddick," I hereby demand that you pay a fine of $1 BILLION USD for willful, malicious, and deliberate copyright infringement.

How to call it

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's call it The chronic LES (Lawsuit Egocentric Syndrome) of Riddick

Re:Riddick....

[dasunst3r]

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!

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

[Useful Wheat]

Is there any way he could take credit for Clippy the dancing paperclip? I think most of us would enjoy it if he was made illegal to install on new computers.

Re:Taking credit for clip-art, and not clippy?

[ubrgeek]

"I see you are writing a pointless lawsuit. Would you like help with that?"

Re:Growing network of victims!

[clickety6]

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:Ahh, fair use

[Inda]

Actually, I believe your Mom hangs out in alt.binaries.embroidery* and is in fact "Yenc-PP-A&A". The same "Yenc-PP-A&A" who posts countless music and movies.

Your clever attempt at deflecting the pointing finger has failed.

*(of course it exists!)

Re:Ahh, fair use

[rueger]

There have been charges and convictions on this one in the past. Disney polices their IP very stringently. As one Grandmother told me, "You don't fuck with the mouse."

Re:What's the problem?

[deets101]

I realize there's a required minimum number of posts before becoming real - for the moment, I can only aspire to be real with post #2 here.

There is also a 2 car analogy minimum.

Same way as usual...

[GameboyRMH]

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.