The Wheel That Went to Court (or, did you know Pixar sued DMA Design - who ended up becoming Rockstar North - because they made a game about a unicycle?
The Wheel That Went to Court (or, did you know Pixar sued DMA Design - who ended up becoming Rockstar North - because they made a game about a unicycle?
Well I stumbled over an interesting story, that naturally ended up in an article to write.
This one's pretty odd, but the tl;dr version is that Pixar sued DMA Design. They'd created a game on the SNES which featured a unicycle. That's it. That's the extent of the copyright infringement Pixar claimed.
Back in 1987 Pixar had made a CG short which featured a unicycle, and so all those years later...they got weirdly litigious.
If you're curious, I found this a super interesting story to cover!